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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. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?
(a) In their heads.
(b) On a computer.
(c) On loose sheets of paper.
(d) In notebooks.

2. What did the Nearings use to cook in?
(a) Pottery only.
(b) Granite pots.
(c) Stainless steel, enamel, pottery, or glass vessels.
(d) Tin pans.

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) 1 month before you bake.
(d) Right before you bake.

4. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.
(b) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.
(c) 10 x 10 feet square.
(d) 8 x 8 feet square.

5. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?
(a) A campsite.
(b) A well.
(c) A garage.
(d) A visitor's center.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does healthy soil teem with?

2. In Vermont, what did the Nearings NOT use to keep food cold?

3. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?

4. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

5. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?

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