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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 eat from?
(a) Wooden bowls.
(b) Plates.
(c) Plastic plates.
(d) China.

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

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

4. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?
(a) Louis Sullivan.
(b) Frank Ghery.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

5. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.
(a) Utopian society.
(b) Sane world.
(c) Removed area.
(d) Insane world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings use to cook in?

2. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?

3. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

4. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?

5. When the Nearings talked about being vegetarians, which neighbors changed their habits and also became vegetarians?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What happens to flour when it is processed?

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

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

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

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