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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 later attach to their first stone building?
(a) A garage.
(b) A visitor's center.
(c) A well.
(d) A campsite.

2. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?
(a) Grey.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Moss-green.

3. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?
(a) The use of religious music.
(b) Electric music.
(c) Rock and roll music.
(d) Sermons.

4. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?
(a) Worms.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Paper.
(d) Wood.

5. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?
(a) Forestry development.
(b) The U.S. Government.
(c) Ski Enterprises.
(d) Freeman Inc.

Short Answer Questions

1. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

2. What kind of roofs did the Nearings put on their houses?

3. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?

4. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?

5. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?

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 is a whole food? How did the Nearings describe a whole food?

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

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

5. What were the Nearings' views regarding the roof of structures? What material did they end up using in Vermont?

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

9. Why did the American Indians live in Connecticut and not Vermont?

10. 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?

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