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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, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Keeping it sharp.
(b) Keep it inside the house.
(c) Let Helen keep it.
(d) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.

2. What are enlarged "cold frames?"
(a) Cellars.
(b) Freezers,
(c) Greenhouses.
(d) Wood sheds.

3. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?
(a) A cliff overlooking the water.
(b) A 26 foot split boulder.
(c) A level meadow.
(d) A rock ledge over a waterfall.

4. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?
(a) Walter Twing.
(b) Wallace Crowninshield.
(c) Floyd Hurd.
(d) Harold Field.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.

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

3. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?

4. What angered Scott about some visitors that came in one morning just before the Nearings decided to move to Maine?

5. What did the Nearings use to cook in?

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