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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. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

2. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?

3. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?

4. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

5. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Nearings plant throughout the winter and continue to eat from the garden?

2. What, according to the authors, is the best part of building a building?

3. What did the people drawn to the farm lack? How could diversity have been a good thing for the Nearings?

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

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

6. What was the Nearings' views of an hourly wage?

7. How much time did it take for the Nearings to provide food for the year, furnish their house and fuel, and provide needed repairs on the farm? What were the positive outcomes of their system?

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

9. What was the planting season for the Nearings? How did they plant their gardens?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the Nearings hate old wooden buildings? What did they recommend people do with old buildings?

Essay Topic 2

What were "cash crops" and what was bread labor? Were they the same? Where they different things? At the farm in Vermont, what was the cash crop?

Essay Topic 3

What was the importance of year-round farming to the Nearings, and how did they handle canning and storing their food?

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