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

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

4. What did a chimney have to do so that it didn't smoke?

5. Where is Aunt Arie's husband at the time the story is written?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the chapter entitled "Aunt Arie", what does the author suggest might be the reasons for the void between youth and the older generations which the author felt?

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

3. What are the students responsible for doing for the magazine?

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

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

6. Where do the students go to find a rope bed?

7. How is Beulah's house described?

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

9. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

10. Describe what a 'rope bed' is.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pick one to write about.

Part 1) How would the story have been different if the articles had been "How To" only without the human stories and personal touches included? Explain your answer.

Part 2) Could any of the stories given been made into short stories or books on their own? Explain why or why not.

Part 3) Is the Foxfire Book a realistic help to a person that intended to live off the land? Explain why or why not.

Essay Topic 2

"White Oak Splits," "Making a Hamper out of White Oak Splits" and "Making a Basket out of White Oak Splits" were all separate articles that could have been easily grouped together.

Part 1) What were the reasons that these three articles were not put together?

Part 2) What other articles in the book could have been easily grouped together? Explain why these articles fit together.

Part 3) Would it have made the articles more or less understandable to have grouped them together? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Mr. Wigginton tries to find a unique method to teach the students.

Part 1) Given what is told to the reader and the results in the story does it seem likely that Mr. Wigginton had a large impact on his students? Explain why or why not?

Part 2) Is it likely that this same method would work again with students today? Explain your answer.

Part 3) What does it say about Mr. Wigginton's personality that he wanted so badly to find a unique way to teach his students?

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