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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) Stop writing letters.
(b) Write their representatives.
(c) Write lots of letters home.
(d) Call their representatives.

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

3. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) The Nearings.
(b) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) The state.

4. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?
(a) 1/2 of the cost.
(b) 3/4 of the cost.
(c) 99 percent of the cost.
(d) 1/3 of the cost.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Nearings decide to "warn" people before they arrived about life on their farm?

3. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?

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

5. What kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who was this book written for?

2. What, according to the Nearings, was the value of compost and mulch?

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

4. What happens to flour when it is processed?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why did cooperative living fail in the valley for the Nearings?

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