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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?
(a) Write their representatives.
(b) Write lots of letters home.
(c) Stop writing letters.
(d) Call their representatives.

2. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?
(a) Call the Postmaster General.
(b) Gather for a peaceful demonstration.
(c) Write the Postmaster General and then Senators and Representatives.
(d) Write to the President of the United States.

3. What did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) Sterling silver silverware.
(b) Plastic silverware.
(c) Chopsticks.
(d) They fingers.

4. How did the Nearings light their home?
(a) With kerosene and candles.
(b) Electricity.
(c) Gas.
(d) Candles.

5. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?
(a) Cattle.
(b) Dairy.
(c) Syrup and sugar.
(d) Vegetables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?

2. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?

3. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?

4. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?

5. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the issue of serving liquor at community events affect the valley in Vermont?

2. What is a whole food? How did the Nearings describe a whole food?

3. How did the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 affect the valley? What did they do? How was this, according to the authors, a positive event for the community?

4. Why did the Nearings decide on New England as a place to settle and not the southwest or other areas of the country or world?

5. What, according to the authors, is the best part of building a building?

6. What happens to flour when it is processed?

7. What was the Nearings' view about old buildings? What was their solution to old buildings?

8. What did the people drawn to the farm lack? How could diversity have been a good thing for the Nearings?

9. What kind of visitors came to stay at the farm? Who were successful, and who were not and why?

10. What was the planting season for the Nearings? How did they plant their gardens?

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