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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. What does "pay as you go" mean to the Nearings?
(a) Pay off all your bills when they are due.
(b) Pay off your student loans.
(c) Pay your credit card statements on time.
(d) Live within your means without credit.

2. How many people visit the farm in Maine?
(a) 10.
(b) 56.
(c) Thousands.
(d) A few.

3. What is "wooding-it?"
(a) Felling a tree.
(b) Building cabinets.
(c) Chopping wood.
(d) Burning wood.

4. What is "heeling-in?"
(a) To be set in ones ways.
(b) The plant is dug up and then replanted with undamaged roots.
(c) To train a dog.
(d) To make a mark in the dirt with the heel of your foot for planting.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the Nearings think was the downfall of most homesteaders?

4. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. When the Nearings found a worn-out apple tree near the blueberries, how did they make it grow?

2. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?

3. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

4. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

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

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

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

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

10. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

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