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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Mountain Recipes" and "Preserving Vegetables".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the Sleepers?
(a) Sky-lights.
(b) Hide-a-beds.
(c) Floor beams of the cabin.
(d) Tools that are used to create notches.

2. What should you remove when making Tomato Catsup?
(a) Seeds and any dirt.
(b) Anything that doesn't look like catsup.
(c) Skin and seeds.
(d) Any bad spots and the skins.

3. What kind of grease does Pearl Martin say she usually likes to use in her soap, although you can use most any kind?
(a) Chicken grease.
(b) Mutton tallow.
(c) Whatever she has on hand.
(d) Hog grease.

4. At the end of the interview what does the student say men like Lon live oblivious to?
(a) That there are skyscrapers covering the world.
(b) That the world has changed so much in the past 100 years.
(c) That there is anything unique about Lon's life.
(d) That men are on the moon.

5. Why is the wood for chairs usually gathered in the winter or fall?
(a) Because sap levels are lowest then.
(b) Because this is the time of year when the trees begin to slow their growing.
(c) This is when the barks show the best woods.
(d) It is the time best for allowing the trees to set out and cure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ailment does Aunt Arie have according to the author?

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

3. What is Lon Reid said to still have?

4. What does Mrs. Harriet Echols say that she used to put in her soap to thicken up the soap?

5. Why does Aunt Arie explain that she doesn't want to cut the eye if she can help it?

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