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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. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?
(a) Write the Postmaster General and then Senators and Representatives.
(b) Call the Postmaster General.
(c) Write to the President of the United States.
(d) Gather for a peaceful demonstration.

2. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?
(a) Hoe the row and pull them out.
(b) Bend and kneel on the ground.
(c) Stand on a stool or ladder.
(d) Put at ladder up in a tree.

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

4. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?
(a) The local grocery.
(b) The previous owners
(c) The Lightfoots.
(d) The Nearings had cows.

5. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?
(a) The absence of health.
(b) Something that causes death.
(c) Illness.
(d) Sickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

2. How many years did it take before the Nearings had blueberries to sell?

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

4. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?

5. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?

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