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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Nearings use to cook in?
(a) Pottery only.
(b) Stainless steel, enamel, pottery, or glass vessels.
(c) Tin pans.
(d) Granite pots.

2. What became a big problem for the town when discussing social events that nearly ripped the town apart?
(a) Who was welcome at the dances.
(b) The use of liquor.
(c) The type of music at the dances.
(d) Openly carrying firearms.

3. What direction do the rows in a garden need to be planted to assure maximum sun to the roots?
(a) Not in rows, but in pods.
(b) North and South.
(c) East and West.
(d) At right angles.

4. What was the relationship between the Nearings and law enforcement?
(a) They were constantly harrassed by the area police.
(b) They were good friends with the sheriff.
(c) Scott was a volunteer policeman.
(d) They never saw a uniformed policeman pass along the dirt road in front of their house.

5. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.
(b) The Vermont farm.
(c) The Madingly family place.
(d) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.

6. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?
(a) Ants.
(b) Bees.
(c) Earth worms and worm capsules.
(d) Snakes.

7. Who taught the Nearings to make maple syrup?
(a) Nobody. They researched it and learned from books.
(b) Harold Field.
(c) Zoe and Floyd Hurd.
(d) Walter Twing.

8. What did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) They fingers.
(b) Sterling silver silverware.
(c) Chopsticks.
(d) Plastic silverware.

9. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Ernest Flagg.
(b) Greene and Greene.
(c) Minnie Pearl.
(d) Stickley.

10. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Carrots.
(c) Corn.
(d) Raddishes.

11. How did the Nearings light their home?
(a) Candles.
(b) With kerosene and candles.
(c) Gas.
(d) Electricity.

12. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?
(a) Ski Enterprises.
(b) Forestry development.
(c) The U.S. Government.
(d) Freeman Inc.

13. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the liver.
(b) It hurts the heart.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.

14. What kind of events were held on Saturday nights in the small Vermont town?
(a) Square dances.
(b) Swap meets.
(c) Movies.
(d) Bar dances.

15. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With styrofoam.
(b) With bricks.
(c) With metal sheets.
(d) With movable forms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?

2. Who attended the party when the mail route was restored in Vermont?

3. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?

4. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?

5. What does healthy soil teem with?

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