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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

2. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?

3. How long had Jacklight foot lived in the valley?

4. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?

5. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to flour when it is processed?

2. What about the Nearings baffled the neighbors the most?

3. What was the Nearings' views of an hourly wage?

4. What was the planting season for the Nearings? How did they plant their gardens?

5. What, according to the Nearings, was the value of compost and mulch?

6. How did the Nearings decorate? What kind of furniture and fireplaces did they use?

7. How did the Nearings pick the lettuce in the winter to keep it from wilting?

8. What, according to the authors, is the best part of building a building?

9. What was the Nearings' view about old buildings? What was their solution to old buildings?

10. What was the Nearings' view of keeping animals? How far did this belief system go?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was the outcome of the Nearings' constant appeal to neighbors to live like them, follow their food choices, and be open-minded about their political views?

Essay Topic 2

Why did the Nearings decide to build stone buildings? What were the advantages to this type of building? What were the disadvantage? How did they make the building? Write a short description.

Essay Topic 3

What were "cash crops" and what was bread labor? Were they the same? Where they different things? At the farm in Vermont, what was the cash crop?

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