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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 Nearings eat for breakfast?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Fruit, sunflower seeds, and a black molasses drink or tea.
(c) Bacon and eggs.
(d) Fresh fruit and yogurt.

2. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?
(a) Nearly 80.
(b) Almost 40.
(c) About 10.
(d) Over 50.

3. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?
(a) The local grocery.
(b) The Nearings had cows.
(c) The previous owners
(d) The Lightfoots.

4. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?
(a) Into amateur and professional music.
(b) Into classical and pop music.
(c) Into religious and non-religious music.
(d) Into instrumental and vocal music.

5. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the liver.
(b) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(c) It hurts the heart.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings eat from?

2. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

3. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

4. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?

5. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much time did it take for the Nearings to provide food for the year, furnish their house and fuel, and provide needed repairs on the farm? What were the positive outcomes of their system?

2. What about the Nearings baffled the neighbors the most?

3. Who was this book written for?

4. How did the Nearings decorate? What kind of furniture and fireplaces did they use?

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

6. How did the Nearings plant throughout the winter and continue to eat from the garden?

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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

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