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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. What are Aunt Arie's stories said to be "spiced" with?

2. What does Pearl Martin say about the coloring of homemade soap?

3. What kind of vehicle drives past Mrs. Watts and her family?

4. What is the last thing that Mrs. Watts describes in her essay?

5. What are the Sleepers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what Aunt Arie tells the students about doing things they are ashamed of?

2. What does Aunt Arie tell the students about her parents?

3. Why do the students realize that it would be impossible to give a set a blue prints for each cabin?

4. What are the uses for wood as it is described in the first chapter of the section titled "Wood?"

5. How are the instructions divided up in the chapter titled 'Building a Log Cabin?'

6. What kind of questions do the girls ask Pearl Martin?

7. Describe what Emma Jean sees when she sits in on a quilting circle and what the women tell her about the quilting circles.

8. How are Dutch Ovens used?

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

10. Describe the events that surround the first time Mrs. Watts sees a car.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Discuss religion and the role that it played for the majority of the people interviewed.

Part 2) Why does it seem that religion was so strong a theme in each person's life?

Essay Topic 2

Many of the people in the book are described as self-sufficient.

Part 1) Describe what it means to be self-sufficient.

Part 2) How is being self-sufficient today different from that of Aunt Arie or Hillard Green? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Though certain subjects are given an entire article all to itself there are many subjects that are repeatedly looked at throughout the book.

Part 1) Name three subjects that are discussed, at least in a minor detail, throughout the book.

Part 2) Pick one of these three subjects and speculate on why it tied in to so many different areas in the book.

Part 3) Would it have been possible to have written the book without this subject? Explain.

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