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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, according to the Nearings, is the food furthest removed from the soil?

2. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

3. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?

4. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

5. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were the Nearings' views regarding the roof of structures? What material did they end up using in Vermont?

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

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

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

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

6. Who was this book written for?

7. Why were the music sessions a community success? What was different about them that made people want to stay and visit?

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

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

10. Why did the Nearings decide on New England as a place to settle and not the southwest or other areas of the country or world?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What, according the the Nearings, was bed gardening and how was it used by other countries?

Essay Topic 2

How was the farm in Vermont different from the farm in Maine? How were they the same?

Essay Topic 3

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

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