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

2. When the Nearings planted their first garden in Maine, what was the first problem they encountered with local animals?
(a) The racoons were eating the seeds.
(b) The birds were eating the seeds.
(c) The deer were eating the seeds.
(d) The kittens were eating the seeds.

3. How much would the insurance policy cost to insure the sugarhouse in Vermont?
(a) $550.00 per 6 months.
(b) $550.00 per month.
(c) $125.00 per year.
(d) $125.00 per month.

4. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?
(a) Deep blue pond water.
(b) Shallow water and mud.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The cool area under the porch.

5. After living in the mountains, where did the Nearings want to live in their new home?
(a) In the desert.
(b) Near the sea.
(c) In the West.
(d) In Kansas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?

2. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?

3. How long do rhubarb and asparagus beds last before they must be rotated?

4. How many feet was the stone garden wall in Maine?

5. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did the Nearings decide to move from Vermont? What had happened to the community they had lived in for 20 years?

3. What one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?

4. Why did the Nearings NOT chose a location in Europe for either one of their moves?

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

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

7. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

8. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

9. What was the importance of Bretton Brubaker's work on the house in Maine?

10. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

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