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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What kind of coals were used for bleaching according to Mrs. Carrie Dillard Garrison, because they held heat longer and stayed alive longer?
(a) Hickory.
(b) Gum.
(c) White Oak.
(d) Pine.

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

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

6. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?
(a) Cats.
(b) Hogs.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Cows.

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

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

9. What should you remove when making Tomato Catsup?
(a) Skin and seeds.
(b) Anything that doesn't look like catsup.
(c) Seeds and any dirt.
(d) Any bad spots and the skins.

10. What sometimes falls into the mash and drowns?
(a) Coons.
(b) Deer.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Free range hogs.

11. What does Lon Reid say that his family used the wings of the turkey for?
(a) To put on dresses.
(b) Decorations.
(c) Fans.
(d) Hats.

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

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

14. What does a hunter mean when he says 'I cut him down.'?
(a) That he cut down the tree.
(b) That he insulted the creature badly.
(c) That he cut the animal down after skinning it.
(d) That he opened fire.

15. What does the bull snake do that gave it its name?
(a) Blow like a bull when a bull gets mad.
(b) Rakes the ground with it's tail.
(c) Charges.
(d) Grows horns.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Scrapple taste like according to Mrs. Mann Norton?

3. What do you do with the meat after it is off the bone?

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

5. What is the process of laying fruit out on trays in front of the fire called?

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