2. What kind of apple did the one apple tree grow that was near the blueberry plantation?
(a) A candy green apple.
(b) A bushel apple.
(c) A Red Delicious apple.
(d) A Greening-type apple.

3. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?
(a) They had rich relatives.
(b) Their travel expenses were paid for by those who asked them to talk.
(c) They had a travel allowance in their budget.
(d) The borrowed the money.

4. What were Helen's parents?
(a) Theosophists.
(b) Mormons.
(c) Teachers.
(d) Theologists.

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

6. After living in the mountains, where did the Nearings want to live in their new home?
(a) In Kansas.
(b) Near the sea.
(c) In the West.
(d) In the desert.

7. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?
(a) They traded for one.
(b) They bought one.
(c) They inherited one.
(d) The were given one.

8. 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 ate a fresh salad.
(c) When they had food all winter long.
(d) When visitors came and they had enough to eat.

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

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

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

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

13. What caused a cellar to be too warm for the Nearings?
(a) The heat of the summer.
(b) A source of heat in the cellar.
(c) A cellar not built far enough underground.
(d) A wet cellar.

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

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