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

3. How high did the blueberry plants get?
(a) 3 feet.
(b) 12 feet.
(c) 7 feet.
(d) 1 foot.

4. How many feet was the stone garden wall in Maine?
(a) 667.
(b) 680.
(c) 420.
(d) 124.

5. What should be recorded on paper when a homesteader is working a farm?
(a) A 20 year plan.
(b) A plan for each day, week and month.
(c) Daily receipts.
(d) Daily food eaten.

6. What became the norm at every newcomer's house in the valley in Vermont after the war?
(a) Piano evenings.
(b) Sewing circles.
(c) Liquored parties.
(d) Political discussions.

7. When did the Nearings use bagged commercial fertililzer commonly sold to farmers?
(a) They never touched it.
(b) Twice a year at planting and harvest.
(c) Once a year in the spring.
(d) Once every 5 years to replenish the soil.

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

9. How did Bretton Brubaker get from his home in Ohio to the farm in Maine?
(a) Took a bus.
(b) He rode his bicycle.
(c) He rode a horse.
(d) Drove his car.

10. How could a competent wood worker determine where a tree would fall?
(a) By listening to the wood as it is chopped.
(b) By pushing it in the right direction.
(c) By properly notching and sawing the tree.
(d) By guessing.

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

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

13. 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 photographed the Nearings.
(d) He took printshop jobs.

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

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