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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. What, according to the Nearings, is the food furthest removed from the soil?
(a) Cooked caracasses of beasts, birds, and fish.
(b) The produce in your grocery store.
(c) The farmer's market produce.
(d) Fresh dairy from a neighbor.

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

3. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?
(a) Sawdust.
(b) Paper.
(c) Wood.
(d) Worms.

4. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By freezing food.
(b) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(c) By eating with the seasons.
(d) By canning early in the season.

5. What did the Nearings think was the downfall of most homesteaders?
(a) They worked 8 hours a day.
(b) They tended to be inexperienced and impatient.
(c) They spent too much money up front.
(d) They couldn't take the hard work days.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

2. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

3. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

4. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?

5. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?

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