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

3. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.
(a) Working farm.
(b) Useful vegetable garden.
(c) Functioning homestead.
(d) Vacation home.

4. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?
(a) Frank Ghery.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) Louis Sullivan.

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

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

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

8. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(b) The Nearings.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) The state.

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

10. What, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?
(a) The forest floor.
(b) A gravel pit.
(c) The mountain top.
(d) The river bed.

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

12. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?
(a) A spring on the high side of the garden.
(b) The threat of fire.
(c) A sinkhole the size of a large truck.
(d) Deer that kept eating the apples.

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

14. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?
(a) They hated the barns in Pennsylvania.
(b) Pennsylvania was too crowded.
(c) They wanted a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
(d) The land costs were more reasonable.

15. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?
(a) They heaved and came out of the ground.
(b) They did not drain the water.
(c) They worked great.
(d) They cracked and broke.