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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the liquid left in the churn after the butter has been made called?
(a) Whey.
(b) Buttermilk.
(c) Skim milk.
(d) Nasty.

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

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

4. 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) Brains.
(b) Eyes.
(c) Nose.
(d) Ears.

5. What does Aunt Nora Garland say she cannot heal?
(a) Removing warts.
(b) Draw out fire.
(c) Bleeding.
(d) Thrush.

6. Those who believe in the signs in part base their belief on what?
(a) Religon.
(b) Radio programs.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Education.

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

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

9. Why is it typically unnecessary for farmers to hunt for food in the forest?
(a) They can easily set out traps.
(b) They keep enough of their own livestock.
(c) They keep track of where the forst animals are and take them when asleep.
(d) It's a mystery.

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

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

12. What happens to the price of the pelt if you make a bad ear hole on a raccoon?
(a) Goes down fifty cents.
(b) Depends on the dealer.
(c) Goes down a dollar.
(d) Goes down by half.

13. What is Andy Webb's turkey call made out of?
(a) Cown horn.
(b) An old modified tin whistle.
(c) White Oak.
(d) Piece of hollowed out wood.

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

15. 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) Salt it.
(d) Put it in a dutch oven.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are many of the mountain men descended from?

2. What does Grady Waldroop cut off of the turkey and leave for the old man along with a note?

3. What does the syrup in Syrup Bread replace?

4. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?

5. What kind of coals were used for bleaching according to Mrs. Carrie Dillard Garrison, because they held heat longer and stayed alive longer?

(see the answer keys)

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