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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 was said would happen to a young girl that slept under a new quilt?

2. Hickory was a very desirable wood but what was a drawback of this wood?

3. What does Mrs. Watts say her brothers used pine to build?

4. How far does Mrs. Watts say they had to travel to see the car?

5. What do the Friendship Quilts typically have stitched on them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What skills and tools are told about for building a log cabin?

2. Where do the students go to find a rope bed?

3. What kind of questions do the girls ask Pearl Martin?

4. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

5. In the chapter entitled "Aunt Arie", what does the author suggest might be the reasons for the void between youth and the older generations which the author felt?

6. What does the last paragraph in the section titled 'Wood' say about wood and the mountain men?

7. What do the different women interviewed have to say about making the soap?

8. How are the mallet and maul described in 'Tools and Skills.'

9. What are some of the things that Lon is noted for doing?

10. How is Beulah's house described?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Explain the importance of the students that were interviewing the people.

Part 2) How would the story have been different if they had not been students but had been adult reporters of some type? Explain your point of view.

Part 3) Is there any indication in the articles that the students put pieces of their own thoughts or ideas into the stories? Support your answer and cite the places in the book where this information is found.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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