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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?
(a) The Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Kansas City Star.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

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

3. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?
(a) Write lots of letters home.
(b) Write their representatives.
(c) Stop writing letters.
(d) Call their representatives.

4. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.
(a) Useful vegetable garden.
(b) Functioning homestead.
(c) Working farm.
(d) Vacation home.

5. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) In their 20s.
(b) Approaching fifty.
(c) 70.
(d) 68 and 69.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?

2. Who attended the party when the mail route was restored in Vermont?

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

4. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?

5. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

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