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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?
(a) A chicken coop.
(b) A detached cellar.
(c) A barn.
(d) A guesthouse.

2. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For fresh water.
(b) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(c) For fishing.
(d) For bathing.

3. What did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) Sterling silver silverware.
(b) Chopsticks.
(c) They fingers.
(d) Plastic silverware.

4. What, according to the Nearings, did frogs like?
(a) Deep blue pond water.
(b) Shallow water and mud.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The cool area under the porch.

5. When did the Nearings use bagged commercial fertililzer commonly sold to farmers?
(a) They never touched it.
(b) Once every 5 years to replenish the soil.
(c) Once a year in the spring.
(d) Twice a year at planting and harvest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?

2. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

3. In Maine, what would an average family of 4 or 5 adults and children require to produce a minimum amount of vegetables?

4. What does healthy soil teem with?

5. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?

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