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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 should you remove when making Tomato Catsup?

2. What is often mixed with hog brains when being cooked?

3. What kind of dog was preferred for hunting rabbit?

4. What does Lon Reid say that his family used the wings of the turkey for?

5. What bit the preacher in Daniel's story?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Mrs. Andy Webb explain about her gift.

2. Describe the hoop snake.

3. Describe what kind of interviews that were done for the section on 'Planting by the Signs.'

4. Explain the process of drying and why it was done.

5. Describe Daniel's home and how Daniel is described.

6. Describe the joint snake.

7. Explain basically how moonshining began.

8. In the beginning of the chapter 'Hunting Tales' what do the beginning chapters explain?

9. Explain how cracklin's are made.

10. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Family is often talked about in the story.

Part 1) What role does family seem to play for the majority of the people in the Foxfire Book that were interviewed? Explain.

Part 2) Is this view still widely held by people today? Explain why or why not.

Part 3) Are there any of the people in the book that didn't seem to feel the same way about family? Explain who, if any, and why.

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