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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 makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?
(a) Wood.
(b) Hay.
(c) The forest.
(d) The outhouse.
2. How long could the Nearings harvest their fall garden?
(a) For 2 or 3 days.
(b) Throughout the winter.
(c) For about 2 weeks.
(d) For 2 to 3 months until night frosts were sufficiently severe.
3. What became the norm at every newcomer's house in the valley in Vermont after the war?
(a) Political discussions.
(b) Liquored parties.
(c) Sewing circles.
(d) Piano evenings.
4. How many feet was the stone garden wall in Maine?
(a) 667.
(b) 420.
(c) 124.
(d) 680.
5. What is "heeling-in?"
(a) To make a mark in the dirt with the heel of your foot for planting.
(b) The plant is dug up and then replanted with undamaged roots.
(c) To train a dog.
(d) To be set in ones ways.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?
2. How far apart were the Nearing's compost piles?
3. After living in the mountains, where did the Nearings want to live in their new home?
4. How much did the Nearings use a mowing machine?
5. How much of the Maine farm was a woodlot?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Nearings build a greenhouse? What were the important things to consider?
2. Describe the house in Maine.
3. How were the Nearings gardens like Japanese gardens?
4. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?
5. When the Nearings visited a farm in Holland, how did the family use compost piles?
6. How did Scott Nearing remove a large tree?
7. To bring the point home to her husband about the increasing number of visitors, how did Helen handle visitors who came to the door just before the move to Maine?
8. What did the Nearings continue to find on the farm?
9. Why, according to the Nearings, do most people want old buildings?
10. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?
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