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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 Bretton Brubaker get from his home in Ohio to the farm in Maine?

2. How many blueberry plants did the Nearings plant their first spring in Maine?

3. How much would the insurance policy cost to insure the sugarhouse in Vermont?

4. What is "wooding-it?"

5. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the homestead in Maine to be different than the one in Vermont? What were the Nearings looking for when they began their search for a new home?

2. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

3. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

4. What one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?

5. To bring the point home to her husband about the increasing number of visitors, how did Helen handle visitors who came to the door just before the move to Maine?

6. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

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

8. How were the Nearings gardens like Japanese gardens?

9. How did the Nearings can fruit?

10. How did Scott Nearing remove a large tree?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the general workday. How did the Nearings work? How many hours were devoted to work and how many to leisure? Why did they set up their farm in this way? What were the benefits? What were the drawbacks?

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