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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Greg Summers, the man from Wisconsin with a background in art, do for cash?
(a) He painted.
(b) He sold plants.
(c) He photographed the Nearings.
(d) He took printshop jobs.

2. What is "wooding-it?"
(a) Building cabinets.
(b) Felling a tree.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Burning wood.

3. What does "pay as you go" mean to the Nearings?
(a) Live within your means without credit.
(b) Pay off all your bills when they are due.
(c) Pay off your student loans.
(d) Pay your credit card statements on time.

4. How should greenhouses be connected to the existing building?
(a) Far away from the house.
(b) To the north side.
(c) To the south or west side.
(d) Above the house on a hillside.

5. How many days was frost possible on the Vermont homestead?
(a) 260.
(b) 150.
(c) 50.
(d) 380.

6. What purpose do the stones serve in the greenhouse?
(a) They are pretty to look at.
(b) They are cool in the summer.
(c) They act as radiators.
(d) They are solid and will not fall.

7. What are enlarged "cold frames?"
(a) Cellars.
(b) Greenhouses.
(c) Wood sheds.
(d) Freezers,

8. What are cloches?
(a) Small glass enclosures for individual plants.
(b) Small plastic enclosures for individual plants.
(c) Glass enclosures for several plants.
(d) Small paper bag enclosures for individual plants.

9. How did the Nearings eat their bread?
(a) In loaves.
(b) With ots of butter.
(c) In whole wheat loaves.
(d) The grain unground and unkneaded.

10. What did the Nearings think was the downfall of most homesteaders?
(a) They couldn't take the hard work days.
(b) They tended to be inexperienced and impatient.
(c) They worked 8 hours a day.
(d) They spent too much money up front.

11. What did the Nearings find about growing pole beans and sweet peas?
(a) They did not like growing tall plants.
(b) They found they were using longer and higher poles and trellises.
(c) They plants did not have a long growing season.
(d) The greenhouse did not work for tall plants.

12. What is most impressive about bed gardening?
(a) Its lack of work.
(b) Its high yield.
(c) Its lack of weeds.
(d) Its color.

13. Who owned the land and home the Nearings wanted to settle on in Maine?
(a) Mary Stackhouse.
(b) Opal Grange.
(c) Venice Waller.
(d) George Near.

14. What percentage of the food they ate did the Nearings produce?
(a) 25 percent.
(b) 10 percent.
(c) 85 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

15. How often did the Nearings have a crop failure with blueberries?
(a) Twice.
(b) Every other year.
(c) Four times.
(d) Never.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the Nearings want a pond?

3. When the Nearings sent samples of their garden soil to be analyzed by the University of Maine, what were the results?

4. What was the subsoil of the pond area?

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

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