2. What is Celtus?
(a) A tempature devise.
(b) A red plant with berries.
(c) A basketball team.
(d) A plant midway between celery and lettuce.

3. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?
(a) They bought them in thrift shops and rummage sales.
(b) They made them from their sheep.
(c) They too hand-me-downs from neighbors.
(d) They bought them on trips to New York.

4. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?
(a) The Iowa way.
(b) The Russian way.
(c) The Chinese way.
(d) The Japanese way.

5. During the 1970s, how many visitors came to the farm in a year?
(a) 200 to 250.
(b) 2 to 5.
(c) 2000 to 2500.
(d) 20 to 25.

6. When did the Nearings know that they were on the right track with their winter gardening?
(a) When they canned all their food.
(b) When they had food all winter long.
(c) When visitors came and they had enough to eat.
(d) When they ate a fresh salad.

7. How old were Helen and Scott when the stone garden wall was finished?
(a) 67 and 87.
(b) 37 and 87.
(c) 47 and 87.
(d) 57 and 87.

8. How did the Nearings plant their greenhouse?
(a) Plants at waist level.
(b) Plants below ground level.
(c) Plants on the ground level.
(d) Plants on a sloping hill.

9. What was the size of the garage-workshop-storeroom in Maine?
(a) 25 feet wide and 50 feet long.
(b) 25 x 25.
(c) 5 feet wide and 9 feet long.
(d) 20 feet wide and 100 feet long.

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

11. How many blueberry plants did the Nearings plant their first spring in Maine?
(a) 562.
(b) 228.
(c) 1088.
(d) 5.

12. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For fresh water.
(c) For bathing.
(d) For fishing.

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

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

15. What was the one negative item about the pond?
(a) The water was always too hot.
(b) Moss.
(c) Trash.
(d) Leaks.