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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 was NEVER used in the compost pile?

2. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?

3. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

4. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

5. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the American Indians live in Connecticut and not Vermont?

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

3. Why did cooperative living fail in the valley for the Nearings?

4. What were Frank Lloyd Wright's basic ideas for building that the Nearings followed?

5. What did the people drawn to the farm lack? How could diversity have been a good thing for the Nearings?

6. How did the issue of serving liquor at community events affect the valley in Vermont?

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

8. How much time did it take for the Nearings to provide food for the year, furnish their house and fuel, and provide needed repairs on the farm? What were the positive outcomes of their system?

9. What happens to flour when it is processed?

10. What is a whole food? How did the Nearings describe a whole food?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How was the planting cycle used by the Nearings like the Japanese planting cycle? Why did the Japanese use gardens in a similar way to the Nearings?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of people never visited the Nearings? Why do you think that was the case?

Essay Topic 3

Why did the Nearing find the question "Who is your family doctor?" so strange? What did they think of doctors? How do the Chinese view doctors? How is this similar to the Nearing's attitudes toward health professionals?

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