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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Hunting Tales".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the students ask about making homemade soap that makes Pearl Martin laugh?
(a) They ask about putting perfume in it.
(b) They ask what colors she can make.
(c) They ask if it is better than dial soap.
(d) They ask where she got her recipe.

2. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?
(a) Chicken grease.
(b) Whatever she has on hand.
(c) Mutton tallow.
(d) Hog grease.

3. What is the bag of fertilizer described as smelling like?
(a) An outhouse.
(b) Fish.
(c) Rotton hog meat.
(d) A crooked politician.

4. What does Aunt Arie ask the students to do when they walk into her house for the first time?
(a) Remove the eyes from a hog's head.
(b) Build a fire.
(c) Kill a snake.
(d) Gut a chicken.

5. When does Mrs. Carrie Dillard Garrison say that that she used to make her soap?
(a) Whenever she got dirty enough.
(b) Whenever they had enough ashes.
(c) In the spring time.
(d) When she had enough lard.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the last thing that Mrs. Watts describes in her essay?

3. Where did Lon learn to make chairs?

4. Which of the following is NOT a reason that someone might receive a blanket?

5. Aunt Arie tells the students not to do anything that they wouldn't want WHO to know?

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