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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 can you do with deer meat?

2. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?

3. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?

4. Which of the following was said to cure asthma?

5. What did the students promise not to print in their interview?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog.'

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

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

4. Explain the basic differences between curing and smoking.

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

6. Describe the story that Bill Lamb tells about why they remove the eyes from the hog's head before cooking it.

7. Explain the reasons that mountain men hunted.

8. Describe the joint snake.

9. What does Andy Webb say is the difference between when he was younger and when he is an old man in terms of the wildlife hunted?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Describe Hillard Green's character.

Part 2) Pick one word, or short phrase, to describe Hillard Green. Explain why you have chosen that word or phrase.

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

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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