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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 are some visitors looking for to buy or have given to them?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Food.
(d) Land.
2. Who occupied one of the guest cabins in Maine for years?
(a) Scott.
(b) Visitors.
(c) Richard Gregg.
(d) Helen.
3. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?
(a) Wait until rainy days and pick them when wet.
(b) Wait until a sunny day with a southern wind and pick them then.
(c) Wait until cold days and pick them frozen.
(d) Pick them early and can them to add flavor.
4. How much did the Nearings use a mowing machine?
(a) For 3 months during the summer.
(b) About 6 or 8 hours a year.
(c) For 2 weeks in the year.
(d) For 2 months out of the year.
5. How many miles did the Nearings move from Vermont to Maine?
(a) 800.
(b) 600.
(c) 350.
(d) 450.
Short Answer Questions
1. How high are gardening beds raised off the ground?
2. How high did the blueberry plants get?
3. What was the size of the garage-workshop-storeroom in Maine?
4. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?
5. In Vermont, what mountain did the Nearings live at the foot of?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did the Nearings decide to move from Vermont? What had happened to the community they had lived in for 20 years?
2. What one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?
3. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?
4. What did the Nearings continue to find on the farm?
5. Describe the house in Maine.
6. How was building the pond an exercise in patience?
7. How did the Nearings can fruit?
8. In what ways did the Nearings use wood from the forest?
9. What caused the leaks in the pond?
10. When the Nearings found a worn-out apple tree near the blueberries, how did they make it grow?
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