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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 used for bread when cornmeal and wheat could not be ground?

2. What is NOT needed for hewing?

3. What often attacked fresh chinking in chimneys?

4. What does Aunt Arie say she would put in if she had plenty of money?

5. What does Aunt Arie say she is going to make?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what a 'rope bed' is.

2. What does Aunt Arie tell the students about her parents?

3. How are Dutch Ovens used?

4. Describe what is explained about Chinking.

5. Describe what Aunt Arie tells the students about doing things they are ashamed of?

6. What information is given in 'An Old Chair Maker Shows How?'

7. Explain how the Watt's family lived.

8. Describe the Friendship Quilt.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the people in the book are described as self-sufficient.

Part 1) Describe what it means to be self-sufficient.

Part 2) How is being self-sufficient today different from that of Aunt Arie or Hillard Green? Explain.

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

Part 1) Pick on person that was interviewed for the Foxfire Book to do another interview with. Which person did you pick and why?

Part 2) What subject would you be interested in finding out about that could easily fit into the Foxfire Book themes? Why did you pick that subject and how does it fit?

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