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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?

2. Which of following is NOT a remedy for arthritis.

3. What does Bill Lamb tell Buck Carver he is scared of?

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

5. What was Daniel's job?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog.'

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Andy Webb say is the difference between when he was younger and when he is an old man in terms of the wildlife hunted?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"White Oak Splits," "Making a Hamper out of White Oak Splits" and "Making a Basket out of White Oak Splits" were all separate articles that could have been easily grouped together.

Part 1) What were the reasons that these three articles were not put together?

Part 2) What other articles in the book could have been easily grouped together? Explain why these articles fit together.

Part 3) Would it have made the articles more or less understandable to have grouped them together? Explain.

Essay Topic 2

There are many different homes that are described in the book.

Part 1) Which home seems the most unique to you? Explain why this home stuck out for you.

Part 2) What is significant about knowing that Daniel Manous lived in a bread truck?

Part 3) Does knowing where these people live affect the reader's thoughts about the person? Explain why or why not and how.

Essay Topic 3

Part 1) Explain the importance of the students that were interviewing the people.

Part 2) How would the story have been different if they had not been students but had been adult reporters of some type? Explain your point of view.

Part 3) Is there any indication in the articles that the students put pieces of their own thoughts or ideas into the stories? Support your answer and cite the places in the book where this information is found.

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