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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How deep was the stone garden wall in Maine?
(a) 24 to 26 inches.
(b) 30 to 48 inches.
(c) 4 to 5 inches.
(d) 62 to 98 inches.

3. Within 5 weeks, how hot would the compost pile get?
(a) 50 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 200 degrees Fahrenheit.

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

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

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

7. How much did the stone garden wall cost?
(a) $225.00.
(b) $5000.00
(c) $22,000.00.
(d) $450.00

8. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?
(a) Shallow water and mud.
(b) The cool area under the porch.
(c) The ocean.
(d) Deep blue pond water.

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

10. How much would the insurance policy cost to insure the sugarhouse in Vermont?
(a) $125.00 per year.
(b) $550.00 per 6 months.
(c) $550.00 per month.
(d) $125.00 per month.

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

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

13. How many hills of corn did the Nearings usually plant?
(a) 80 to 100 hills.
(b) 5 to 10 hills.
(c) 50 to 60 hills.
(d) 1 to 4 hills.

14. What was the subsoil of the pond area?
(a) Mud.
(b) Red clay.
(c) Yellow clay.
(d) Black dirt.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How high are gardening beds raised off the ground?

3. What are enlarged "cold frames?"

4. What, according to the Nearings, made a parsnip tasty?

5. Who did all the hand hewing of the timbers for the new house in Maine?

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