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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 did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?
(a) Dairy.
(b) Cattle.
(c) Vegetables.
(d) Syrup and sugar.

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

3. What did the Nearings eat from?
(a) Plates.
(b) Wooden bowls.
(c) China.
(d) Plastic plates.

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

5. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(b) They bought them from a gravel company.
(c) They collected them around their farm.
(d) They brought them home from their travels abroad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?

2. In Vermont, what mountain did the Nearings live at the foot of?

3. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?

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

5. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

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