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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 did the students promise not to print in their interview?

2. What term do the mountain people use to describe houses, meadows or caves that they will refuse to enter?

3. What does the bull snake do that gave it its name?

4. What do the students say that stories about hunting inevitably turn to?

5. What is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the basics for weather signs and the different ways they are obtained.

2. Explain the reasons that hogs were the mountain people's main meat.

3. Describe the way the recipes in 'Mountain Recipes' are told.

4. Describe the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog.'

5. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

6. What does Mrs. Andy Webb explain about her gift.

7. Describe Daniel's home and how Daniel is described.

8. What different processes are looked at in Preserving Vegetables?

9. Explain the basic differences between curing and smoking.

10. In the beginning of the chapter 'Hunting Tales' what do the beginning chapters explain?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 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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