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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?
(a) The forest.
(b) Wood.
(c) The outhouse.
(d) Hay.

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

3. What are some visitors looking for to buy or have given to them?
(a) Land.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Food.
(d) Dogs.

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

5. What did the Nearings build in the corner of the walled-in vegetable garden?
(a) A chicken coop.
(b) A barn.
(c) A rabbit hutch.
(d) A greenhouse.

6. What is a dowsing rod used to find?
(a) Food.
(b) Water.
(c) Fish.
(d) Trees.

7. What did the Nearings build their greenhouses out of?
(a) Glass and plastic.
(b) Wood.
(c) Stone and cement and glass.
(d) Cement and plastic.

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

9. What year did the Nearings complete the stone outhouse in Maine?
(a) 1952.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1966.
(d) 1973.

10. How many miles did the Nearings move from Vermont to Maine?
(a) 450.
(b) 600.
(c) 350.
(d) 800.

11. How many people visit the farm in Maine?
(a) 56.
(b) A few.
(c) Thousands.
(d) 10.

12. What are the disadvantages to pit growing in a greenhouse, according to the Nearings?
(a) The ground is too hard.
(b) The step down out of the house.
(c) The soil is not good.
(d) Dampness.

13. What angered Scott about some visitors that came in one morning just before the Nearings decided to move to Maine?
(a) They tried to buy the land from the Nearings.
(b) They stayed and did no work and complained about the food.
(c) They were children of miners.
(d) They interrupted Scott in his study.

14. Who did all the stonework on the house in Maine?
(a) Scott.
(b) Visitors.
(c) Helen.
(d) Richard.

15. How many years did it take before the Nearings had blueberries to sell?
(a) 7 years.
(b) 2 years.
(c) 9 months.
(d) 3 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who occupied one of the guest cabins in Maine for years?

2. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?

3. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?

4. How old were Helen and Scott when the stone garden wall was finished?

5. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?

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