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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following national groups have supported Foxfire?

2. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?

3. What was used for bread when cornmeal and wheat could not be ground?

4. What was Eliot Wigginton's job at the time that he helped to start Foxfire?

5. When does Mrs. Algie Norton say she saw her first real mattress?

Short Essay Questions

1. What instructions does Aunt Arie give about making souse meat?

2. What are some of the things that Lon is noted for doing?

3. What does the last paragraph in the section titled 'Wood' say about wood and the mountain men?

4. How does Mrs. Watts describe Christmas and the children's reactions to their gifts?

5. Explain how the Watt's family lived.

6. What is explained to the reader about picking the correct timber for making white oak splits?

7. How are the mallet and maul described in 'Tools and Skills.'

8. Explain why the Foxfire magazine is originally started?

9. Describe how the article "This is the Way I was Raised Up" was written.

10. Describe the differences between using the fire in the winter and in the warmer months.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel Manous, Aunt Arie, and Hillard Green are the only people in the book to have an article named after them.

Part 1) Compare these people together. What do they have in common that makes them people of interest?

Part 2) Which of these people stands out the most and why.

Part 3) Rename these three articles. Explain why you chose the new titles that you decided on.

Essay Topic 2

There is a lot of solitude talked about in the story.

Part 1) What does it indicate that so many of the people in the story talked about their solitude or the fact that they were cut off from the world?

Part 2) What seems to be the main reason for the solitude that people endured?

Part 3) What does it appear that the solitude gave the people?

Essay Topic 3

Take a closer look at the purpose of a quilting circle.

Part 1) What images come to mind when the phrase 'quilting circle' is mentioned? Why?

Part 2) Explain the practicality of a quilting circle?

Part 3) Would it be possible to get a quilting circle together in modern times? How would it be different? How would it be the same? Explain.

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