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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. What did the Nearings build their greenhouses out of?

3. Who did all the stonework on the house in Maine?

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

5. What are cloches?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the house in Maine.

3. What was the Nearing's favorite tool?

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

5. How did the Nearings lay out a garden?

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

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

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

9. What caused the leaks in the pond?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How important was documentation? How did the Nearings document their farming experiment?

Essay Topic 2

What kind of people never visited the Nearings? Why do you think that was the case?

Essay Topic 3

At the end, the Nearings thought they had only "scratched life's surface." What did they mean by that?

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