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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 soaking do to the meat?
(a) Removes the excess blood.
(b) Gives it a good flavor.
(c) Gives you time to get your nerve up to eat it.
(d) Prepares it for the next step.

2. How is Daniel Manous described in the first line of the chapter titled 'Daniel Manous?'
(a) Jovial.
(b) Loner
(c) Unique.
(d) Poet.

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

4. What kind of reading material does Daniel have with him?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Music books.
(c) Theology.
(d) Hunting and trapping guides.

5. What is at the beginning of the chapter titled 'Planting by the Signs?'
(a) The reasons the students wrote this article.
(b) Days best for writing a magazine.
(c) Quotes from farmers.
(d) Bible scriptures.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?

3. How long should the carcass of a possum be soaked before cooking to eat?

4. What is it said that a joint snake can do?

5. What does Mrs. Algie Norton say makes the best Hominy?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the joint snake.

2. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

3. What does Andy Webb say is the difference between when he was younger and when he is an old man in terms of the wildlife hunted?

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

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

6. Describe the hoop snake.

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

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

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

10. In the beginning of the chapter 'Hunting Tales' what do the beginning chapters explain?

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