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

2. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) Nothing.
(b) It hurts the liver.
(c) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(d) It hurts the heart.

3. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?
(a) 3 days before you bake.
(b) 1 week before you bake.
(c) Right before you bake.
(d) 1 month before you bake.

4. What direction do the rows in a garden need to be planted to assure maximum sun to the roots?
(a) At right angles.
(b) North and South.
(c) Not in rows, but in pods.
(d) East and West.

5. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?
(a) Bees.
(b) Ants.
(c) Earth worms and worm capsules.
(d) Snakes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What became the norm at every newcomer's house in the valley in Vermont after the war?

2. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?

3. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

4. What became a big problem for the town when discussing social events that nearly ripped the town apart?

5. How did the Nearings decide to "warn" people before they arrived about life on their farm?

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