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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 do the students write the 'Faith Healing ' chapter admit in reference to their own beliefs about faith healing?
(a) They want badly for it too work.
(b) They are skeptical.
(c) They have absolutely no opinion about it.
(d) They don't believe in it.

2. What is said to have been the prime source of meat for the early family in the mountains?
(a) Hog.
(b) Chicken.
(c) Possum.
(d) Deer.

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

4. Where is the art of moonshining said to have begun?
(a) Prohibition laws.
(b) No one is sure.
(c) Revenue officers.
(d) The hatred of the Britons and their excise tax.

5. What mixture was put on a broken arm?
(a) Ashes and lye.
(b) Spider web and dirt.
(c) Red clay.
(d) Salt water and baccon grease.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bit the preacher in Daniel's story?

2. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?

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

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?

5. What does Aunt Nora Garland say she cannot heal?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the joint snake.

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

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

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

9. Explain basically how moonshining began.

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

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