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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is the art of moonshining said to have begun?
(a) Revenue officers.
(b) The hatred of the Britons and their excise tax.
(c) Prohibition laws.
(d) No one is sure.

5. 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.

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

7. How does a coachwhip snake kill animals?
(a) Causing madness.
(b) Wriggling into the ear canal.
(c) Wraps around them and whips them so that they run to death.
(d) Poison.

8. What does Minyard Conner say the bear died of in her story?
(a) Must have been sick.
(b) Shot in the head.
(c) Was scared to death.
(d) Hung itself.

9. What were the October Beans used as a substitute for?
(a) Soup beans.
(b) Meat.
(c) Black eyed peas.
(d) Potatoes.

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

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

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

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

14. What do the students write the 'Faith Healing ' chapter admit in reference to their own beliefs about faith healing?
(a) They don't believe in it.
(b) They have absolutely no opinion about it.
(c) They want badly for it too work.
(d) They are skeptical.

15. Which of these childhood illnesses was looked at in terms of faith healing?
(a) Polio.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Measles.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lon Reid say that his family used the wings of the turkey for?

2. What is one of the factors that slowed the production and appeal of moonshining?

3. Which of following is NOT a remedy for arthritis.

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

5. What kind of reading material does Daniel have with him?

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