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

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

3. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By burning areas of the forest.
(b) By burning leaves.
(c) By using soil from the forest only.
(d) By composting.

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

5. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?
(a) That they were sloppy.
(b) That they would go hungry if they stayed.
(c) That they were uncordial.
(d) That they were too old to be working on a farm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?

2. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?

3. What was the Nearing's sugarhouse stack known for?

4. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

5. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

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