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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. As the ski business moved into the valley, what did the neighbors call the area where the Nearings lived in Vermont?
(a) Lost Horizon.
(b) Grandmother's house.
(c) The Wild Ones.
(d) The Wilderness.

2. Why is bed gardening considered such a good idea?
(a) The plants are planted in rows and so much easer to hoe.
(b) Plants are planted by color.
(c) The gardener keeps his feet in the walkways and does not pack down the seed rows.
(d) Plant types all planted together so each bed has only one plant type.

3. During the 1970s, how many visitors came to the farm in a year?
(a) 2000 to 2500.
(b) 20 to 25.
(c) 200 to 250.
(d) 2 to 5.

4. Which way should a garden slope to get maximum sun exposure and good drainage?
(a) Rolling to the north.
(b) Tumbling down the west.
(c) Gently toward the south.
(d) To the east for sunrise.

5. What became the norm at every newcomer's house in the valley in Vermont after the war?
(a) Sewing circles.
(b) Liquored parties.
(c) Piano evenings.
(d) Political discussions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dowsing rod used to find?

2. What did the Nearings build in the corner of the walled-in vegetable garden?

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

4. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?

5. What should be recorded on paper when a homesteader is working a farm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changed in the attitudes of the community in Vermont during and after WWII?

2. How did the Nearings can fruit?

3. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

4. Why, according to the Nearings, do most people want old buildings?

5. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

6. 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?

7. How did the Nearings feel as they began to age about life?

8. What kinds of visitors did the Nearings have at their farms.

9. How was building the pond an exercise in patience?

10. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?

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