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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) Grow a tougher skin.
(b) Put's on a winter coat.
(c) Produce more heavily.
(d) Produce very few.

2. What does Aunt Arie burn to keep snakes away?
(a) Lye.
(b) Snake skins.
(c) Old shoes.
(d) Fresh peach limbs.

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

4. What do you cut out of the hog's head before making souse and is one of the only things on the hog's head not used in souse?
(a) Brains.
(b) Ears.
(c) Nose.
(d) Eyes.

5. What was the dog called that was trained to round up and bring in the livestock for butchering or for selling?
(a) Betsie.
(b) Ham dogs.
(c) Ketch dogs.
(d) Cattle dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these childhood illnesses was looked at in terms of faith healing?

2. What does Daniel live in?

3. What does Mrs. Lake Stiles say to do with the rest of the frog after you have cut the legs off?

4. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?

5. What does the bull snake do that gave it its name?

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

3. Explain basically how moonshining began.

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

5. Explain the reasons that mountain men hunted.

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

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

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

9. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

10. How do you prepare frog?

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