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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Mountain Recipes" and "Preserving Vegetables".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Sleepers?
(a) Floor beams of the cabin.
(b) Tools that are used to create notches.
(c) Sky-lights.
(d) Hide-a-beds.

2. What does Aunt Arie say she is going to make?
(a) Jerky.
(b) Bacon.
(c) Sausage.
(d) Souse Meat.

3. What does Pearl Martin say about the coloring of homemade soap?
(a) It never came out looking the same twice.
(b) It is almost clear.
(c) It depends on the ingredients used.
(d) It is always a darker color.

4. What is Lon Reid said to still have?
(a) Active bee gum hives.
(b) An ox and cart.
(c) An old stihl.
(d) His mother and father's sorghum mill.

5. At the end of the interview what does the student say men like Lon live oblivious to?
(a) That there are skyscrapers covering the world.
(b) That there is anything unique about Lon's life.
(c) That men are on the moon.
(d) That the world has changed so much in the past 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of ashes does Pearl Martin say they typically used?

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

4. What ailment does Aunt Arie have according to the author?

5. When does Mrs. Carrie Dillard Garrison say that that she used to make her soap?

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