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

2. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $150.00.
(b) $15.00.
(c) They traded for it.
(d) $20.00.

3. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) 70.
(b) 68 and 69.
(c) Approaching fifty.
(d) In their 20s.

4. How did the Nearings ask workers how much they wanted for a job on the farm?
(a) "How much will you expect for that job?"
(b) "Can we give you a check?"
(c) "Will you take a credit card?"
(d) "Mastercard or Visa?"

5. What did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) Sterling silver silverware.
(b) Chopsticks.
(c) They fingers.
(d) Plastic silverware.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the Nearing's sugarhouse stack known for?

3. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?

4. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

5. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did the Nearings decide to make maple syrup as their cash crop? How did this decision surprise them?

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

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

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

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

8. Who was this book written for?

9. What were Frank Lloyd Wright's basic ideas for building that the Nearings followed?

10. Describe how the Nearings made fruit juice as a simple process.

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