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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What term do the mountain people use to describe houses, meadows or caves that they will refuse to enter?
(a) Snake infested.
(b) Snakey.
(c) Snake bitten.
(d) Snake like.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is often mixed with hog brains when being cooked?

2. What is it that whited the apples in the bleaching process?

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

4. What bit the preacher in Daniel's story?

5. What do the hogs eat that generally produce the sweetest meat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the basics for weather signs and the different ways they are obtained.

2. Describe the directions given for skinning a raccoon.

3. What different processes are looked at in Preserving Vegetables?

4. Describe what kind of interviews that were done for the section on 'Planting by the Signs.'

5. Explain where the expression "That must'a had a dead hog in it" comes from.

6. Explain the reasons that hogs were the mountain people's main meat.

7. How do you prepare frog?

8. What is Daniel's story about that he tells the students?

9. Describe the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog.'

10. How does Taylor Crockett say that bear meat was divided up?

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