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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. What did the Nearings think was the downfall of most homesteaders?
(a) They worked 8 hours a day.
(b) They couldn't take the hard work days.
(c) They tended to be inexperienced and impatient.
(d) They spent too much money up front.

3. How high are gardening beds raised off the ground?
(a) 2 feet.
(b) 1 inch.
(c) Several inches.
(d) 68 inches.

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

5. What was the one negative item about the pond?
(a) The water was always too hot.
(b) Leaks.
(c) Moss.
(d) Trash.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were "cold frames?"

2. When the Nearings planted their first garden in Maine, what was the first problem they encountered with local animals?

3. What did the Nearings call their formula for the good life?

4. What year did the Nearings complete the stone outhouse in Maine?

5. Who did all the pointing work on the house in Maine?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did Scott Nearing remove a large tree?

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

8. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

9. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

10. What caused the leaks in the pond?

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