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

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

3. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Greene and Greene.
(b) Minnie Pearl.
(c) Ernest Flagg.
(d) Stickley.

4. What did most friends of the Nearings dub their guesthouses?
(a) The "free inn."
(b) The "uncomfortable bed inn."
(c) The "homeless inn."
(d) The "Waldorf."

5. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the heart.
(b) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(c) It hurts the liver.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?

2. What are the disadvantages to pit growing in a greenhouse, according to the Nearings?

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

4. What became a big problem for the town when discussing social events that nearly ripped the town apart?

5. What were "cold frames?"

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