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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 became a big problem for the town when discussing social events that nearly ripped the town apart?
(a) Who was welcome at the dances.
(b) The type of music at the dances.
(c) Openly carrying firearms.
(d) The use of liquor.

2. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By eating with the seasons.
(b) By freezing food.
(c) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(d) By canning early in the season.

3. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner.
(c) The Kansas City Star.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

4. In Vermont, what did the Nearings NOT use to keep food cold?
(a) An icebox, refrigerator, or freezing unit.
(b) Canned goods stored in an underground cellar.
(c) Storage bins covered with leaves.
(d) The cellar.

5. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Madingly family place.
(b) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.
(c) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.
(d) The Vermont farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?

2. What does healthy soil teem with?

3. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

4. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What made the Vermont community shrink even as the Nearings lived there?

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

5. What was the Nearings' views of an hourly wage?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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