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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 did Bretton Brubaker get from his home in Ohio to the farm in Maine?

2. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?

3. What is "wooding-it?"

4. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?

5. What purpose do the stones serve in the greenhouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What caused the leaks in the pond?

4. What kinds of visitors did the Nearings have at their farms.

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

6. How were the Nearings gardens like Japanese gardens?

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

8. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

9. 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?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the Nearings views about the war? How did their views affect how they got along with their neighbors?

Essay Topic 2

What was the importance of year-round farming to the Nearings, and how did they handle canning and storing their food?

Essay Topic 3

What were the Nearings' personal beliefs regarding meat? How did their beliefs change through the years?

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