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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 many years did it take before the Nearings had blueberries to sell?

2. What are enlarged "cold frames?"

3. What invaded the cellar one winter and ate all the food stored there while the Nearings were away?

4. How often did the Nearings have a crop failure with blueberries?

5. What was the size of the garage-workshop-storeroom in Maine?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the Nearings, what makes a successful enterprise?

2. What point do the Nearings make about personal style in a home?

3. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

4. How did Scott Nearing remove a large tree?

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

7. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

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

9. How did the Nearings can fruit?

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

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

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

Why did the Nearings have no fear of age? Think about the age they were when they moved to Vermont. Why did this not bother them?

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