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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. Who occupied one of the guest cabins in Maine for years?
(a) Scott.
(b) Helen.
(c) Richard Gregg.
(d) Visitors.
2. How should greenhouses be connected to the existing building?
(a) Far away from the house.
(b) To the north side.
(c) Above the house on a hillside.
(d) To the south or west side.
3. Who did all the pointing work on the house in Maine?
(a) Bretton,
(b) Scott.
(c) Helen.
(d) Keith.
4. 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 visitors came and they had enough to eat.
(d) When they had food all winter long.
5. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For fresh water.
(b) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(c) For bathing.
(d) For fishing.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old were Helen and Scott when the stone garden wall was finished?
2. When did the Nearings use bagged commercial fertililzer commonly sold to farmers?
3. Forrest Tyson, who did the electrical work on the house in Maine was a teacher where?
4. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?
5. What makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did the Nearings can fruit?
2. How was building the pond an exercise in patience?
3. What one regret did the authors have about the stone wall they had to build around the garden in Maine?
4. What was the Nearings' attitudes toward doctors?
5. How did the Nearings make applesauce?
6. What kinds of visitors did the Nearings have at their farms.
7. When the Nearings visited a farm in Holland, how did the family use compost piles?
8. 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?
9. In what ways did the Nearings use wood from the forest?
10. What was the importance of Bretton Brubaker's work on the house in Maine?
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