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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. Who owned the land and home the Nearings wanted to settle on in Maine?
(a) Venice Waller.
(b) Opal Grange.
(c) Mary Stackhouse.
(d) George Near.

2. How deep was the stone garden wall in Maine?
(a) 30 to 48 inches.
(b) 62 to 98 inches.
(c) 4 to 5 inches.
(d) 24 to 26 inches.

3. What are cloches?
(a) Small glass enclosures for individual plants.
(b) Small plastic enclosures for individual plants.
(c) Glass enclosures for several plants.
(d) Small paper bag enclosures for individual plants.

4. What are enlarged "cold frames?"
(a) Freezers,
(b) Cellars.
(c) Greenhouses.
(d) Wood sheds.

5. Which way should a garden slope to get maximum sun exposure and good drainage?
(a) Gently toward the south.
(b) Tumbling down the west.
(c) Rolling to the north.
(d) To the east for sunrise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?

2. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?

3. How much does an 18-inch walking space take up in a nine-foot greenhouse?

4. What did the Nearings build in the corner of the walled-in vegetable garden?

5. What became the norm at every newcomer's house in the valley in Vermont after the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why, according to the Nearings, do most people want old buildings?

2. What was the importance of Bretton Brubaker's work on the house in Maine?

3. Describe the house in Maine.

4. When the Nearings found a worn-out apple tree near the blueberries, how did they make it grow?

5. What point do the Nearings make about personal style in a home?

6. When the Nearings visited a farm in Holland, how did the family use compost piles?

7. How did the Nearings feel as they began to age about life?

8. What one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?

9. What were the Nearings thoughts on cold-weather planting?

10. Why did the Nearings believe homesteaders should record everything?

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