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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 does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?

2. How long do the students say it took them to gather information about building the log cabin?

3. What does Mrs. Harriet Echols say was done to clean a rope bed?

4. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?

5. Who are the students NOT told to interview for Foxfire?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the uses for wood as it is described in the first chapter of the section titled "Wood?"

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

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

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

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

7. What are a few of the tales that are told about Chimneys from those interviewed in 'Chimney Building?'

8. Describe the events that surround the first time Mrs. Watts sees a car.

9. How is Beulah's house described?

10. What kind of information is to go into the Foxfire magazine?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"White Oak Splits," "Making a Hamper out of White Oak Splits" and "Making a Basket out of White Oak Splits" were all separate articles that could have been easily grouped together.

Part 1) What were the reasons that these three articles were not put together?

Part 2) What other articles in the book could have been easily grouped together? Explain why these articles fit together.

Part 3) Would it have made the articles more or less understandable to have grouped them together? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) What is the author's purpose in the Foxfire Book?

Part 2) Is that purpose accomplished? Explain why or why not.

Part 3) Could this book easily be made into a continuation in current day times? Would it be popular as it was when it was originally published? Explain your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Discuss religion and the role that it played for the majority of the people interviewed.

Part 2) Why does it seem that religion was so strong a theme in each person's life?

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