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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Continuing the Good LIfe, Chapters One through Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) Food.
(b) A terrible stench.
(c) Wood.
(d) Organic life.

2. What did the Nearings eat from?
(a) Wooden bowls.
(b) Plates.
(c) Plastic plates.
(d) China.

3. How did the Nearings ask workers how much they wanted for a job on the farm?
(a) "Will you take a credit card?"
(b) "Mastercard or Visa?"
(c) "Can we give you a check?"
(d) "How much will you expect for that job?"

4. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They bought them from a gravel company.
(b) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(c) They collected them around their farm.
(d) They brought them home from their travels abroad.

5. After living in the mountains, where did the Nearings want to live in their new home?
(a) In the desert.
(b) Near the sea.
(c) In Kansas.
(d) In the West.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?

2. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?

3. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?

4. How long could the Nearings harvest their fall garden?

5. What did the Nearings use to cook in?

(see the answer key)

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