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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 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 want badly for it too work.
(c) They have absolutely no opinion about it.
(d) They are skeptical.

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

3. What does Mrs. Lake Stiles say to do with the rest of the frog after you have cut the legs off?
(a) Gut it.
(b) Back it in a pie.
(c) Throw it away.
(d) Put it on to soak.

4. 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) They keep track of where the forst animals are and take them when asleep.
(d) It's a mystery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What happens to the price of the pelt if you make a bad ear hole on a raccoon?

4. What is said to have been the prime source of meat for the early family in the mountains?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the way the recipes in 'Mountain Recipes' are told.

3. What is the difference between the direction given by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Philips' method for churning butter and that of Mrs. Norton's?

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

5. What does Mrs. Andy Webb explain about her gift.

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

7. Describe the directions given for skinning a raccoon.

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

9. Explain basically how moonshining began.

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

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