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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Rope, Straw, and Feathers are to Sleep on".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was NOT added to the clay to help the chinking in the chimney set up more quickly?
(a) Rice
(b) Rye
(c) Wheat
(d) Barley

2. What does Mrs. Watts say was their reaction to the gifts that Santa Clause had left them?
(a) They were too sick to enjoy them.
(b) The objects were hid away and saved as if gold.
(c) They were pleased.
(d) They had wanted more but didn't say anything.

3. Why does the author, Paul Gillespie, say he is apprehensive about meeting Aunt Arie for the first time?
(a) He believed she would not welcome him.
(b) He had heard she was very ill.
(c) He didn't know what to expect.
(d) He knew she was crazy.

4. What year was Foxfire established?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1958.
(d) 1985.

5. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?
(a) Mommy and Poppy.
(b) Yarn Pastor.
(c) Grams.
(d) God.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the earliest simple mattresses called?

2. What do the students say is one reason why they have asked Beulah to help them make a basket?

3. How many copies of Foxfire are printed the very first time it is printed?

4. What kind of meat does Aunt Arie say she doesn't want?

5. What were early chimneys called?

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