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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 can you do with deer meat?
(a) Eat it raw.
(b) Smoke it.
(c) Cure it.
(d) Put it in souse.

2. What is the 'leaf lard?'
(a) The fat that held the intestines.
(b) The fat on the backbone.
(c) The fat on the belly.
(d) The fat around the neck.

3. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?
(a) Rich milk, mostly cream.
(b) Fresh milk.
(c) Skim milk.
(d) Butter milk.

4. 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) Sleep in the dog's bed.
(d) Tie maple leaves in your hair and leave them.

5. What sometimes falls into the mash and drowns?
(a) Free range hogs.
(b) Deer.
(c) Squirrels.
(d) Coons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term do the mountain people use to describe houses, meadows or caves that they will refuse to enter?

2. What did the students promise not to print in their interview?

3. What does Aunt Arie burn to keep snakes away?

4. What happens to the price of the pelt if you make a bad ear hole on a raccoon?

5. What do the squirrels do if it is going to be a bad winter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the directions given for skinning a raccoon.

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

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

4. Describe the joint snake.

5. Explain the reasons that mountain men hunted.

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

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

8. How do you prepare frog?

9. Describe the hoop snake.

10. Explain how cracklin's are made.

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