2. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?
(a) Call their representatives.
(b) Write lots of letters home.
(c) Stop writing letters.
(d) Write their representatives.

3. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They ran the water to the outhouse.
(b) They ran the water to the garden.
(c) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.
(d) They plugged it up.

4. What did the Nearings eat for breakfast?
(a) Fresh fruit and yogurt.
(b) Ice cream.
(c) Fruit, sunflower seeds, and a black molasses drink or tea.
(d) Bacon and eggs.

5. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) In their 20s.
(b) 68 and 69.
(c) 70.
(d) Approaching fifty.

6. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They collected them around their farm.
(b) They brought them home from their travels abroad.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They cut them from large slates of granite.

7. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?
(a) He collected sap from the trees.
(b) He tended his horses.
(c) He did not work.
(d) He worked in his garden.

8. How long had Jacklight foot lived in the valley?
(a) 35 years.
(b) 10 month.
(c) 20 years.
(d) All his life.

9. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $15.00.
(b) $150.00.
(c) They traded for it.
(d) $20.00.

10. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?
(a) 3/4 of the cost.
(b) 1/3 of the cost.
(c) 99 percent of the cost.
(d) 1/2 of the cost.

11. How did the Nearings make applesauce?
(a) They chopped up the apples and stored them through the winter until it was applesauce time.
(b) They froze them in the freezer.
(c) The "open kettle" way.
(d) They strained the apples through cheesecloth and canned them.

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

13. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) Food.
(b) Organic life.
(c) A terrible stench.
(d) Wood.

14. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?
(a) Up three steps.
(b) On the level with the house.
(c) Below sea level.
(d) At waist-high level.

15. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?
(a) Oils.
(b) Fresh fruits and vegetables.
(c) Candy, pastries, meats, soft drinks, alcohol, tea, coffee, or tobacco.
(d) Avacados.