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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the soaking do to the meat?
(a) Gives it a good flavor.
(b) Removes the excess blood.
(c) Prepares it for the next step.
(d) Gives you time to get your nerve up to eat it.

2. What does the syrup in Syrup Bread replace?
(a) Honey.
(b) Water.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Vanilla.

3. What was a dog called whose job it was to keep the hogs and cows out of the corn?
(a) Plantation dog.
(b) Spot.
(c) Cattle dog.
(d) Farm dog.

4. Which of these is NOT a reason that some of the mountain people enjoy hunting?
(a) Money from the fur.
(b) Change of meat.
(c) The boom of the gun.
(d) Thrill of the hunt.

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

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

7. What must you remove from the raccoon if you intend to eat it?
(a) Musk glands.
(b) Gallbladder.
(c) His eyes.
(d) Testicles.

8. 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?
(a) Ears.
(b) Nose.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Brains.

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

10. What bit the preacher in Daniel's story?
(a) Beaver.
(b) Bear.
(c) Rattlesnake.
(d) Dog.

11. What did a steady diet of acorns do to the meat of a hog?
(a) Had no effect.
(b) No one ever paid any attention.
(c) Made it salty.
(d) Made it bitter.

12. What do the students say that stories about hunting inevitably turn to?
(a) Hunting tales.
(b) Tales about dogs.
(c) Lies.
(d) How their parents taught them to hunt.

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

14. What was Daniel's job?
(a) He was unemployed.
(b) To keep track of wild birds.
(c) To keep watch on timber fields.
(d) Watch over the fish hatchery.

15. What is one of the factors that slowed the production and appeal of moonshining?
(a) Heavier law enforcement.
(b) People realizes it was wrong to be drunk.
(c) Stop of prohibition.
(d) Modern medicine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following was said to cure asthma?

2. What does Minyard Conner say the bear died of in her story?

3. A person that can heal a burn is said to do what?

4. What is the bag of fertilizer described as smelling like?

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

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