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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. A person that can heal a burn is said to do what?

2. What happens to the price of the pelt if you make a bad ear hole on a raccoon?

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

4. What did the students promise not to print in their interview?

5. What does Minyard Conner say the bear died of in her story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Harley Carpenter say about faith healing?

3. Describe the hoop snake.

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

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

6. Explain the basic differences between curing and smoking.

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

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

9. Explain how cracklin's are made.

10. Explain the process of drying and why it was done.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Take a closer look at the purpose of a quilting circle.

Part 1) What images come to mind when the phrase 'quilting circle' is mentioned? Why?

Part 2) Explain the practicality of a quilting circle?

Part 3) Would it be possible to get a quilting circle together in modern times? How would it be different? How would it be the same? 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.

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