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

2. Those who believe in the signs in part base their belief on what?
(a) Religon.
(b) Education.
(c) Radio programs.
(d) Dreams.

3. Who tells the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog?'
(a) Bill Lamb.
(b) Tom Cruise.
(c) Mrs. Norton.
(d) Pearl Martin.

4. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?
(a) Cats.
(b) Cows.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Hogs.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following is NOT a name for Souse?

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

4. What can you do with deer meat?

5. What is the bag of fertilizer described as smelling like?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do you prepare frog?

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

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

4. Describe the directions given for skinning a raccoon.

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

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

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

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

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

10. Describe the joint snake.

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