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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 much does an 18-inch walking space take up in a nine-foot greenhouse?

2. How high did the blueberry plants get?

3. What did Greg Summers, the man from Wisconsin with a background in art, do for cash?

4. How much would the insurance policy cost to insure the sugarhouse in Vermont?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the house in Maine.

4. Why did the Nearings build their first greenhouse?

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

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

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

8. How did the Nearings make applesauce?

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

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

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

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

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