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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. 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) Suck salty water up your nose.
(c) Tie maple leaves in your hair and leave them.
(d) Sleep in the dog's bed.

2. What is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?
(a) Aunt Arie's Cornbread.
(b) Brunswick Stew.
(c) Potato Bread.
(d) Apple Dumplings.

3. What does Mrs. Algie Norton say makes the best Hominy?
(a) Big grain white corn.
(b) No such thing as good hominy.
(c) Big grain yellow corn.
(d) Small grain white corn.

4. What does Daniel live in?
(a) An Indian tepee.
(b) An old cargo van.
(c) A broke down school bus.
(d) Abandoned bread truck.

5. Which of following is NOT a remedy for arthritis.
(a) Use a magnet to draw it out of your body.
(b) Drink a honey, vinegar and moonshine mixutre.
(c) Make tea from alfalfa seeds or leaves.
(d) Whip your face with a rabbit's foot.

Short Answer Questions

1. What can you do with deer meat?

2. Which of these is NOT a way to keep your still hidden?

3. What is a painter as it is referred to by the mountain people interviewed?

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

5. When was hog killing generally done?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how cracklin's are made.

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

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

4. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

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

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

7. How do you prepare frog?

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

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

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

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