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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. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?

2. Why does the author, Paul Gillespie, say he is apprehensive about meeting Aunt Arie for the first time?

3. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?

4. What is NOT included in the article 'Rope, Straw, and Feathers are to Sleep on?'

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

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

5. Describe what a 'rope bed' is.

6. How are Dutch Ovens used?

7. What information is given in 'An Old Chair Maker Shows How?'

8. What does Wigginton say is part of the Foxfire magazine although proper English is not a concern?

9. What kind of information is to go into the Foxfire magazine?

10. How is Beulah's house described?

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

Part 1) Which of the people interviewed seemed to be the most important or to have the biggest impact on the story? Explain why you chose this person.

Part 2) Which character stood out the most in the story? Why do you think this was?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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