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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Watt family leave their home to do as described by Mrs. Watts?
(a) Go find a doctor.
(b) Get supplies from the store.
(c) See a car.
(d) Get a new dog.

2. What does it suggest in the instructions that the foundation of the log cabin should be made out of?
(a) An elevated dirt floor.
(b) Solid rock spanning the length and width of the house.
(c) Large boulders placed at the four corners of the house and each 10 foot between.
(d) Cured white oat logs that have been scorched to prevent termite damage.

3. What do the students say is one reason why they have asked Beulah to help them make a basket?
(a) She has offered.
(b) So they can learn from her.
(c) Because she makes good cakes.
(d) Because they enjoy her company.

4. What were many of the tools made out of that the pioneers used?
(a) Wood.
(b) Blood, sweat, and tears.
(c) Metal.
(d) Rock.

5. What do you do with the meat after it is off the bone?
(a) Lay it out to dry.
(b) Run it through a food chopper.
(c) Put it in a dutch oven.
(d) Salt it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the October Beans used as a substitute for?

2. What is said to be just as important as the tools?

3. What does Mrs. Watts say her brothers used pine to build?

4. What kind of meat does Aunt Arie say she doesn't want?

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

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