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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Chimney Building".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were many of the tools made out of that the pioneers used?
(a) Blood, sweat, and tears.
(b) Metal.
(c) Wood.
(d) Rock.

2. What does Mrs. Watts say she and her brothers received one Christmas from Santa Clause?
(a) Three pieces of candy and an orange.
(b) An apple and a bag of marbles.
(c) Pig tails and a lump of coal.
(d) A candy bar and some new socks.

3. What are the Sleepers?
(a) Hide-a-beds.
(b) Floor beams of the cabin.
(c) Tools that are used to create notches.
(d) Sky-lights.

4. How long do the students say it took them to gather information about building the log cabin?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) A full year.
(c) Six months.
(d) An entire summer.

5. What was "This is the Way I was Raised Up" written on?
(a) Small piece of paper.
(b) Back of the People Magazine.
(c) Cardboard Box.
(d) Tissue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what area do the people interviewed for Foxfire live?

2. What was NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?

3. What two things were said to have been brought to the forests our ancestors settled in the chapter titled "Tools and Skills?"

4. What is NOT needed for hewing?

5. What does Bill Lamb say a out the first chimney he ever built?

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