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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 is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?

2. What does the soaking do to the meat?

3. A person that can heal a burn is said to do what?

4. How long should the carcass of a possum be soaked before cooking to eat?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain basically how moonshining began.

2. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

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

4. Describe the directions given for skinning a raccoon.

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

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

7. Explain the basic differences between curing and smoking.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Part 1) Which of the people interviewed seemed to be the most important or to have the biggest impact on the story? Explain why you chose this person.

Part 2) Which character stood out the most in the story? Why do you think this was?

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Pick on person that was interviewed for the Foxfire Book to do another interview with. Which person did you pick and why?

Part 2) What subject would you be interested in finding out about that could easily fit into the Foxfire Book themes? Why did you pick that subject and how does it fit?

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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