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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 do you do with the meat after it is off the bone?

2. What does Lon Reid say that his family used the wings of the turkey for?

3. What farm animal is rumored to eat snakes?

4. What is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?

5. What did a steady diet of acorns do to the meat of a hog?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Daniel's home and how Daniel is described.

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

3. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

4. 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?

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

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

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

8. Describe the joint snake.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Daniel Manous, Aunt Arie, and Hillard Green are the only people in the book to have an article named after them.

Part 1) Compare these people together. What do they have in common that makes them people of interest?

Part 2) Which of these people stands out the most and why.

Part 3) Rename these three articles. Explain why you chose the new titles that you decided on.

Essay Topic 2

Part 1) Describe Hillard Green's character.

Part 2) Pick one word, or short phrase, to describe Hillard Green. Explain why you have chosen that word or phrase.

Essay Topic 3

"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.

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