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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. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For bathing.
(c) For fishing.
(d) For fresh water.

2. What is Celtus?
(a) A tempature devise.
(b) A basketball team.
(c) A plant midway between celery and lettuce.
(d) A red plant with berries.

3. What kind of apple did the one apple tree grow that was near the blueberry plantation?
(a) A Greening-type apple.
(b) A candy green apple.
(c) A bushel apple.
(d) A Red Delicious apple.

4. What did Greg Summers, the man from Wisconsin with a background in art, do for cash?
(a) He photographed the Nearings.
(b) He sold plants.
(c) He painted.
(d) He took printshop jobs.

5. How did the Nearings eat their bread?
(a) In whole wheat loaves.
(b) With ots of butter.
(c) In loaves.
(d) The grain unground and unkneaded.

Short Answer Questions

1. During the 1970s, how many visitors came to the farm in a year?

2. How did Bretton Brubaker get from his home in Ohio to the farm in Maine?

3. How much of the Maine farm was a woodlot?

4. What did the Nearings build their greenhouses out of?

5. How high are gardening beds raised off the ground?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways did the Nearings use wood from the forest?

2. Describe the house in Maine.

3. According to the Nearings, what makes a successful enterprise?

4. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

5. What caused the leaks in the pond?

6. Why did the Nearings believe homesteaders should record everything?

7. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

8. 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?

9. How did the Nearings can fruit?

10. How did the Nearings build a greenhouse? What were the important things to consider?

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