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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Four though Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?
(a) Cereal with milk.
(b) Coffee.
(c) A handful of sunflower seeds.
(d) A handful of cranberries.

4. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By freezing food.
(b) By canning early in the season.
(c) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(d) By eating with the seasons.

5. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In the refrigerator.
(b) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(c) In the garden, covered.
(d) In the greenhouse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

2. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?

3. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?

4. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

5. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?

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