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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. When did the Nearings use bagged commercial fertililzer commonly sold to farmers?
(a) Twice a year at planting and harvest.
(b) Once every 5 years to replenish the soil.
(c) They never touched it.
(d) Once a year in the spring.

2. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For bathing.
(c) For fishing.
(d) For fresh water.

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

4. What is most impressive about bed gardening?
(a) Its lack of weeds.
(b) Its lack of work.
(c) Its high yield.
(d) Its color.

5. What was the subsoil of the pond area?
(a) Yellow clay.
(b) Black dirt.
(c) Red clay.
(d) Mud.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were Helen and Scott when the stone garden wall was finished?

2. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?

3. What was the nearest airport to the house in Maine?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

2. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?

3. How did Scott Nearing remove a large tree?

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

5. When the Nearings visited a farm in Holland, how did the family use compost piles?

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

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

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

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

10. How did the Nearings can fruit?

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