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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the students say that stories about hunting inevitably turn to?
(a) Hunting tales.
(b) Lies.
(c) Tales about dogs.
(d) How their parents taught them to hunt.

4. What happens to the price of the pelt if you make a bad ear hole on a raccoon?
(a) Depends on the dealer.
(b) Goes down fifty cents.
(c) Goes down by half.
(d) Goes down a dollar.

5. What is the liquid left in the churn after the butter has been made called?
(a) Whey.
(b) Nasty.
(c) Skim milk.
(d) Buttermilk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mixture was put on a broken arm?

2. What is at the beginning of the chapter titled 'Planting by the Signs?'

3. What does a hunter mean when he says 'I cut him down.'?

4. What does Aunt Arie burn to keep snakes away?

5. What do you cut out of the hog's head before making souse and is one of the only things on the hog's head not used in souse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What different processes are looked at in Preserving Vegetables?

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

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

4. How do you prepare frog?

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

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 joint snake.

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

9. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

10. 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?

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