The Good Life Quiz | One Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Good Life Quiz | One Week Quiz A

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?
(a) Write the Postmaster General and then Senators and Representatives.
(b) Call the Postmaster General.
(c) Write to the President of the United States.
(d) Gather for a peaceful demonstration.

2. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?
(a) The cool area under the porch.
(b) The ocean.
(c) Shallow water and mud.
(d) Deep blue pond water.

3. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?
(a) Stand on a stool or ladder.
(b) Hoe the row and pull them out.
(c) Bend and kneel on the ground.
(d) Put at ladder up in a tree.

4. Within 5 weeks, how hot would the compost pile get?
(a) 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
(b) 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
(c) 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
(d) 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

5. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) The Nearings.
(b) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(c) The state.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did most friends of the Nearings dub their guesthouses?

2. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

3. What direction do the rows in a garden need to be planted to assure maximum sun to the roots?

4. How could a competent wood worker determine where a tree would fall?

5. What, according to the Nearings, made a parsnip tasty?

(see the answer key)

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