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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 did Bretton Brubaker get from his home in Ohio to the farm in Maine?

2. What was the nearest airport to the house in Maine?

3. How much did the stone garden wall cost?

4. How often did the Nearings have a crop failure with blueberries?

5. What was the subsoil of the pond area?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

2. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

3. How did the Nearings can fruit?

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

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

6. Why did the Nearings NOT chose a location in Europe for either one of their moves?

7. Why did the Nearings decide to move from Vermont? What had happened to the community they had lived in for 20 years?

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

9. To bring the point home to her husband about the increasing number of visitors, how did Helen handle visitors who came to the door just before the move to Maine?

10. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the Nearings' personal beliefs regarding meat? How did their beliefs change through the years?

Essay Topic 2

How important was documentation? How did the Nearings document their farming experiment?

Essay Topic 3

What was the outcome of the Nearings' constant appeal to neighbors to live like them, follow their food choices, and be open-minded about their political views?

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