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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does a coachwhip snake kill animals?
(a) Wraps around them and whips them so that they run to death.
(b) Poison.
(c) Causing madness.
(d) Wriggling into the ear canal.

2. What can you do with deer meat?
(a) Eat it raw.
(b) Cure it.
(c) Smoke it.
(d) Put it in souse.

3. What is the first recipe given in Mountain Recipes?
(a) Brunswick Stew.
(b) Potato Bread.
(c) Aunt Arie's Cornbread.
(d) Apple Dumplings.

4. Which of these is NOT a way to keep your still hidden?
(a) Constantly move it.
(b) Built a camaflogue building around it.
(c) Disguise it as a rock.
(d) Dig a ravine to put it in.

5. What term do the mountain people use to describe houses, meadows or caves that they will refuse to enter?
(a) Snake bitten.
(b) Snake infested.
(c) Snake like.
(d) Snakey.

6. What does Lon Reid say that his family used the wings of the turkey for?
(a) Decorations.
(b) Fans.
(c) Hats.
(d) To put on dresses.

7. What was the dog called that was trained to round up and bring in the livestock for butchering or for selling?
(a) Betsie.
(b) Ham dogs.
(c) Ketch dogs.
(d) Cattle dogs.

8. Which of these childhood illnesses was looked at in terms of faith healing?
(a) Thrush.
(b) Chicken pox.
(c) Measles.
(d) Polio.

9. What type of milk should be used when churning butter?
(a) Fresh milk.
(b) Rich milk, mostly cream.
(c) Skim milk.
(d) Butter milk.

10. What does Aunt Nora Garland say she cannot heal?
(a) Bleeding.
(b) Removing warts.
(c) Thrush.
(d) Draw out fire.

11. What is the process of laying fruit out on trays in front of the fire called?
(a) Dehydrating.
(b) Scorching.
(c) Drying.
(d) Blazing.

12. What does the syrup in Syrup Bread replace?
(a) Honey.
(b) Water.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Vanilla.

13. What is it said that a joint snake can do?
(a) Bend itslef into severl 90 degree angles.
(b) Anywhere they bite you your closest joint bends permenently.
(c) Sing.
(d) Be broken into pieces and grow back together.

14. What is Andy Webb's turkey call made out of?
(a) Cown horn.
(b) Piece of hollowed out wood.
(c) White Oak.
(d) An old modified tin whistle.

15. Why is it typically unnecessary for farmers to hunt for food in the forest?
(a) They can easily set out traps.
(b) It's a mystery.
(c) They keep enough of their own livestock.
(d) They keep track of where the forst animals are and take them when asleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the students say that stories about hunting inevitably turn to?

2. What does the soaking do to the meat?

3. Who tells the story of 'The Buzzard and the Dog?'

4. What is said to have been the prime source of meat for the early family in the mountains?

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

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