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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. How is Daniel Manous described in the first line of the chapter titled 'Daniel Manous?'

2. What is said to have been the prime source of meat for the early family in the mountains?

3. What does Bill Lamb tell Buck Carver he is scared of?

4. What do the students write the 'Faith Healing ' chapter admit in reference to their own beliefs about faith healing?

5. What is the 'leaf lard?'

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain where the expression "That must'a had a dead hog in it" comes from.

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

3. Explain basically how moonshining began.

4. How do you prepare frog?

5. What is the difference between the direction given by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Philips' method for churning butter and that of Mrs. Norton's?

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

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

8. What is explained about the remedies looked at in 'Home Remedies' before the remedies are given?

9. What different processes are looked at in Preserving Vegetables?

10. Explain the reasons that mountain men hunted.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

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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