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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Nearings know that they were on the right track with their winter gardening?
(a) When they canned all their food.
(b) When they ate a fresh salad.
(c) When they had food all winter long.
(d) When visitors came and they had enough to eat.

2. How many people visit the farm in Maine?
(a) 56.
(b) 10.
(c) Thousands.
(d) A few.

3. What angered Scott about some visitors that came in one morning just before the Nearings decided to move to Maine?
(a) They interrupted Scott in his study.
(b) They were children of miners.
(c) They stayed and did no work and complained about the food.
(d) They tried to buy the land from the Nearings.

4. What are the disadvantages to pit growing in a greenhouse, according to the Nearings?
(a) The step down out of the house.
(b) The ground is too hard.
(c) Dampness.
(d) The soil is not good.

5. How old were Helen and Scott when the stone garden wall was finished?
(a) 67 and 87.
(b) 37 and 87.
(c) 47 and 87.
(d) 57 and 87.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings call their formula for the good life?

2. How much did the stone garden wall cost?

3. What is most impressive about bed gardening?

4. During the 1970s, how many visitors came to the farm in a year?

5. How far apart were the Nearing's compost piles?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

3. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

4. Why did the Nearings believe homesteaders should record everything?

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

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

7. When the Nearings found a worn-out apple tree near the blueberries, how did they make it grow?

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

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

10. Describe the house in Maine.

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