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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 many days was frost possible on the Vermont homestead?
(a) 150.
(b) 380.
(c) 50.
(d) 260.
2. What is Celtus?
(a) A basketball team.
(b) A tempature devise.
(c) A plant midway between celery and lettuce.
(d) A red plant with berries.
3. How many hills of corn did the Nearings usually plant?
(a) 80 to 100 hills.
(b) 5 to 10 hills.
(c) 1 to 4 hills.
(d) 50 to 60 hills.
4. What, according to the Nearings, made a parsnip tasty?
(a) Freezing would convert their starch into sugar.
(b) Syrup.
(c) A little sea salt.
(d) Honey.
5. What caused a cellar to be too warm for the Nearings?
(a) A cellar not built far enough underground.
(b) A wet cellar.
(c) The heat of the summer.
(d) A source of heat in the cellar.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?
2. What angered Scott about some visitors that came in one morning just before the Nearings decided to move to Maine?
3. What did the Nearings think was the downfall of most homesteaders?
4. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?
5. What is "wooding-it?"
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?
2. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?
3. How did the Nearings build a greenhouse? What were the important things to consider?
4. In what ways did the Nearings use wood from the forest?
5. Describe the house in Maine.
6. How was the homestead in Maine to be different than the one in Vermont? What were the Nearings looking for when they began their search for a new home?
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 one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?
9. How did the Nearings can fruit?
10. Why did the Nearings believe homesteaders should record everything?
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