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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 30 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

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

3. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(b) They were easy to build with.
(c) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.
(d) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.

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

5. When the Nearings talked about being vegetarians, which neighbors changed their habits and also became vegetarians?
(a) 2 close friends.
(b) None.
(c) Only a neighbor man who stayed with them for a long while.
(d) Most of their neighbors.

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

7. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?
(a) Right before you bake.
(b) 3 days before you bake.
(c) 1 month before you bake.
(d) 1 week before you bake.

8. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?
(a) Into amateur and professional music.
(b) Into classical and pop music.
(c) Into religious and non-religious music.
(d) Into instrumental and vocal music.

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

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

11. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?
(a) They fell asleep in the shade of the garden.
(b) They stayed later and worked most of the afternoon.
(c) Their productivity was very high.
(d) They were escaping and never returned.

12. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?
(a) Red.
(b) Moss-green.
(c) Grey.
(d) Brown.

13. 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.

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?

2. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?

3. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?

4. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?

5. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

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