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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 does the sweet potato do to indicate a harsh winter?
(a) Produce very few.
(b) Grow a tougher skin.
(c) Put's on a winter coat.
(d) Produce more heavily.

2. What did the students promise not to print in their interview?
(a) Names.
(b) Ingredients.
(c) Still locations.
(d) Prison records.

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

4. Which of the following was said to cure asthma?
(a) Avoid any food that was picked or killed in a month with an R.
(b) Tie maple leaves in your hair and leave them.
(c) Sleep in the dog's bed.
(d) Suck salty water up your nose.

5. What must you remove from the raccoon if you intend to eat it?
(a) Testicles.
(b) Gallbladder.
(c) Musk glands.
(d) His eyes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of these is NOT a reason that some of the mountain people enjoy hunting?

3. What did a steady diet of acorns do to the meat of a hog?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story that Bill Lamb tells about why they remove the eyes from the hog's head before cooking it.

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

3. Explain how cracklin's are made.

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

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

6. Describe Daniel's home and how Daniel is described.

7. Explain the basic differences between curing and smoking.

8. Explain basically how moonshining began.

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

10. How do you prepare frog?

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