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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. How long had Jacklight foot lived in the valley?
2. What did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?
3. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?
4. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?
5. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
Short Essay Questions
1. What made the Vermont community shrink even as the Nearings lived there?
2. Why did the Nearings decide on New England as a place to settle and not the southwest or other areas of the country or world?
3. What is a whole food? How did the Nearings describe a whole food?
4. What happens to flour when it is processed?
5. What was the planting season for the Nearings? How did they plant their gardens?
6. Why was digging a foundation for a building so very important? How deep did the footings need to be and why?
7. What was the Nearings' view about old buildings? What was their solution to old buildings?
8. What about the Nearings baffled the neighbors the most?
9. How did the Nearings decorate? What kind of furniture and fireplaces did they use?
10. Why did cooperative living fail in the valley for the Nearings?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How was the planting cycle used by the Nearings like the Japanese planting cycle? Why did the Japanese use gardens in a similar way to the Nearings?
Essay Topic 2
What made the Nearings move from Vermont to Maine? What happened to the area around their farm and what happened to their neighbors?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the general workday. How did the Nearings work? How many hours were devoted to work and how many to leisure? Why did they set up their farm in this way? What were the benefits? What were the drawbacks?
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