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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 was the one negative item about the pond?

2. What year did the Nearings complete the stone outhouse in Maine?

3. How long could the Nearings harvest their fall garden?

4. What are cloches?

5. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

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

3. What changed in the attitudes of the community in Vermont during and after WWII?

4. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

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

6. According to the Nearings, what makes a successful enterprise?

7. What kinds of visitors did the Nearings have at their farms.

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

9. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?

10. How were the Nearings gardens like Japanese gardens?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

At the end, the Nearings thought they had only "scratched life's surface." What did they mean by that?

Essay Topic 3

How was the farm in Vermont different from the farm in Maine? How were they the same?

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