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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. How did the Nearings make applesauce?
2. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?
3. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?
4. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?
5. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Nearings plant throughout the winter and continue to eat from the garden?
2. How did the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 affect the valley? What did they do? How was this, according to the authors, a positive event for the community?
3. What made the Vermont community shrink even as the Nearings lived there?
4. 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?
5. How did the Nearings decorate? What kind of furniture and fireplaces did they use?
6. How did the Nearings decide to make maple syrup as their cash crop? How did this decision surprise them?
7. What was the Nearings' view of keeping animals? How far did this belief system go?
8. What did the people drawn to the farm lack? How could diversity have been a good thing for the Nearings?
9. Why did cooperative living fail in the valley for the Nearings?
10. What were Frank Lloyd Wright's basic ideas for building that the Nearings followed?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why did the Nearings leave New York? What was the political climate in 1932? What was happening in the nation? What did the Nearings do before they moved to Vermont?
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
At the end, the Nearings thought they had only "scratched life's surface." What did they mean by that?
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