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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. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?
(a) Worms.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Paper.
(d) Wood.

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

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

4. What did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) Plastic silverware.
(b) Sterling silver silverware.
(c) They fingers.
(d) Chopsticks.

5. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $15.00.
(b) $20.00.
(c) They traded for it.
(d) $150.00.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

3. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

4. What was the subsoil of the pond area?

5. What did the Nearings call the dwarf peas they grew on trellises?

(see the answer key)

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