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

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

3. What is Andy Webb's turkey call made out of?
(a) Piece of hollowed out wood.
(b) White Oak.
(c) An old modified tin whistle.
(d) Cown horn.

4. What was Daniel's job?
(a) To keep track of wild birds.
(b) Watch over the fish hatchery.
(c) To keep watch on timber fields.
(d) He was unemployed.

5. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?
(a) Butter milk.
(b) Fresh milk.
(c) Rich milk, mostly cream.
(d) Skim milk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mixture was put on a broken arm?

2. What does Minyard Conner say the bear died of in her story?

3. Which of these wolly worm actions does NOT does not imply there is going to be a bad winter?

4. What does Grady Waldroop cut off of the turkey and leave for the old man along with a note?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

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

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

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

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

6. Describe the hoop snake.

7. What is explained about the remedies looked at in 'Home Remedies' before the remedies are given?

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

9. Explain how cracklin's are made.

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

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