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

2. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Greene and Greene.
(b) Minnie Pearl.
(c) Ernest Flagg.
(d) Stickley.

3. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?
(a) A handful of sunflower seeds.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Cereal with milk.
(d) A handful of cranberries.

4. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?
(a) Floyd Hurd.
(b) Wallace Crowninshield.
(c) Walter Twing.
(d) Harold Field.

5. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?
(a) Through a double front door.
(b) Through a side door from the garage.
(c) Through the cellar.
(d) Through the door in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?

2. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

3. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?

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

5. How did the Nearings light their home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Nearings trade work with their neighbors? What example can you give?

2. What was the Nearings' view of keeping animals? How far did this belief system go?

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

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

5. 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?

6. How did the Nearings pick the lettuce in the winter to keep it from wilting?

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

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

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

10. Why was digging a foundation for a building so very important? How deep did the footings need to be and why?

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