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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the process of laying fruit out on trays in front of the fire called?
(a) Blazing.
(b) Scorching.
(c) Drying.
(d) Dehydrating.

2. Who tells the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog?'
(a) Bill Lamb.
(b) Tom Cruise.
(c) Mrs. Norton.
(d) Pearl Martin.

3. What instrument does Daniel play?
(a) Mandolin.
(b) Ukulele
(c) Guitar.
(d) Banjo.

4. A person that can heal a burn is said to do what?
(a) Draw out the devil.
(b) Draw out the fire.
(c) A dance.
(d) Replace the skin.

5. What does Scrapple taste like according to Mrs. Mann Norton?
(a) Possum.
(b) Pork.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Fish.

6. What mixture was put on a broken arm?
(a) Salt water and baccon grease.
(b) Red clay.
(c) Ashes and lye.
(d) Spider web and dirt.

7. What is the 'leaf lard?'
(a) The fat on the backbone.
(b) The fat that held the intestines.
(c) The fat around the neck.
(d) The fat on the belly.

8. What does Bill Lamb tell Buck Carver he is scared of?
(a) Painters.
(b) The dark.
(c) Predators.
(d) Boogers.

9. What does Aunt Arie burn to keep snakes away?
(a) Snake skins.
(b) Old shoes.
(c) Fresh peach limbs.
(d) Lye.

10. Which of these is NOT a way to keep your still hidden?
(a) Built a camaflogue building around it.
(b) Disguise it as a rock.
(c) Constantly move it.
(d) Dig a ravine to put it in.

11. What is a painter as it is referred to by the mountain people interviewed?
(a) A person who paints houses.
(b) A creature of legend.
(c) A panther.
(d) A large mountain lion.

12. What do most healers claim will happen if others hear them speak the words that God has given them to speak to heal someone?
(a) God will transfer the gift.
(b) The person listening will go deaf over a period of time.
(c) The healer will loose their power.
(d) God ignores the request to heal the person.

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

14. What is often mixed with hog brains when being cooked?
(a) Chicken.
(b) Fish.
(c) Potatoes.
(d) Eggs.

15. What is said to have been the prime source of meat for the early family in the mountains?
(a) Deer.
(b) Hog.
(c) Possum.
(d) Chicken.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is 'side meat' made into?

2. What do you cut out of the hog's head before making souse and is one of the only things on the hog's head not used in souse?

3. How long should the carcass of a possum be soaked before cooking to eat?

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

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

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