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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. In Vermont, what mountain did the Nearings live at the foot of?

2. What were colonists who moved from England to New England not concerned with?

3. How many feet was the stone garden wall in Maine?

4. What does "pay as you go" mean to the Nearings?

5. Who did all the pointing work on the house in Maine?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the Nearings feel as they began to age about life?

2. How did the Nearings can fruit?

3. When the Nearings visited a farm in Holland, how did the family use compost piles?

4. Why did the Nearings decide to move from Vermont? What had happened to the community they had lived in for 20 years?

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

6. Why, according to the Nearings, do most people want old buildings?

7. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

8. What caused the leaks in the pond?

9. What did the Nearings continue to find on the farm?

10. What were the Nearings thoughts on cold-weather planting?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did the Nearings hate old wooden buildings? What did they recommend people do with old buildings?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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