View a FREE sample

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. When does Daisy Justice say is the best time to pickle vegetables?

3. What can you do with deer meat?

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

5. What does Mrs. Lake Stiles say to do with the rest of the frog after you have cut the legs off?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

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

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

4. Explain basically how moonshining began.

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the joint snake.

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

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

Part 1) Which of the articles seemed to be the most helpful as a 'how to' guide? Explain.

Part 2) Which of the articles seemed to be the least helpful as a 'how to' guide? Why?

Essay Topic 3

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.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,038 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample