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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are many of the mountain men descended from?
(a) English.
(b) Outcast Britains.
(c) Scott-Irish.
(d) Settlers.

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

3. The number of days old the moon is at the first snow tells what?
(a) How long the snow will stay on the ground.
(b) How many snows there will be that winter.
(c) How many inches of snow there will be that month.
(d) How many days till the next snow.

4. What does Grady Waldroop cut off of the turkey and leave for the old man along with a note?
(a) A foot.
(b) A wing.
(c) The head.
(d) A tail feather.

5. How long should the carcass of a possum be soaked before cooking to eat?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Doesn't have to be soaked.
(c) At least overnight.
(d) Forty-eight hours.

6. What does Mrs. Lake Stiles say to do with the rest of the frog after you have cut the legs off?
(a) Throw it away.
(b) Gut it.
(c) Back it in a pie.
(d) Put it on to soak.

7. What kind of dog was preferred for hunting rabbit?
(a) Beagle.
(b) Terrier.
(c) Basset.
(d) Mutt.

8. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?
(a) Rich milk, mostly cream.
(b) Butter milk.
(c) Fresh milk.
(d) Skim milk.

9. How do you cure cramps in your feet?
(a) Put pine leaves in your shoes.
(b) Put a Bible at the foot of the bed.
(c) Walk barefoot on a wood fence.
(d) Turn your shoes upside down before going to bed.

10. Which of these wolly worm actions does NOT does not imply there is going to be a bad winter?
(a) Is harder to find.
(b) Is found crawling before the first frost.
(c) Has a heavy coat.
(d) Lots of them are seen.

11. What do the hogs eat that generally produce the sweetest meat?
(a) Acorns.
(b) Honey.
(c) Corn.
(d) Chestnuts.

12. What is it that whited the apples in the bleaching process?
(a) Bleach.
(b) Beta-dine.
(c) Lyme.
(d) Sulfur.

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

14. 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 healer will loose their power.
(c) God ignores the request to heal the person.
(d) The person listening will go deaf over a period of time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it typically unnecessary for farmers to hunt for food in the forest?

2. What does Aunt Nora Garland say she cannot heal?

3. What can you do with deer meat?

4. Where is the art of moonshining said to have begun?

5. Which of these childhood illnesses was looked at in terms of faith healing?

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