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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. Who did all the hand hewing of the timbers for the new house in Maine?

2. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?

3. As the ski business moved into the valley, what did the neighbors call the area where the Nearings lived in Vermont?

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

5. How many people visit the farm in Maine?

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. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

3. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

4. How did the Nearings build a greenhouse? What were the important things to consider?

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

6. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

7. What changed in the attitudes of the community in Vermont during and after WWII?

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

9. What was the importance of Bretton Brubaker's work on the house in Maine?

10. Why did the Nearings NOT chose a location in Europe for either one of their moves?

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 made the Nearings move from Vermont to Maine? What happened to the area around their farm and what happened to their neighbors?

Essay Topic 3

How was the planting cycle used by the Nearings like the Japanese planting cycle? Why did the Japanese use gardens in a similar way to the Nearings?

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