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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, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?
(a) A gravel pit.
(b) The river bed.
(c) The mountain top.
(d) The forest floor.

2. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?
(a) 1/3 of the cost.
(b) 1/2 of the cost.
(c) 3/4 of the cost.
(d) 99 percent of the cost.

3. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?
(a) Bees.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Ants.
(d) Earth worms and worm capsules.

4. How long had Jacklight foot lived in the valley?
(a) 20 years.
(b) All his life.
(c) 35 years.
(d) 10 month.

5. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Stickley.
(b) Greene and Greene.
(c) Minnie Pearl.
(d) Ernest Flagg.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

2. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

3. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

4. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?

5. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 affect the valley? What did they do? How was this, according to the authors, a positive event for the community?

2. What were Frank Lloyd Wright's basic ideas for building that the Nearings followed?

3. What happens to flour when it is processed?

4. Describe how the Nearings made fruit juice as a simple process.

5. How did the issue of serving liquor at community events affect the valley in Vermont?

6. What were the Nearings' views regarding the roof of structures? What material did they end up using in Vermont?

7. Who was this book written for?

8. What is a whole food? How did the Nearings describe a whole food?

9. What kind of visitors came to stay at the farm? Who were successful, and who were not and why?

10. Why did the American Indians live in Connecticut and not Vermont?

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