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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 kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?
(a) Folding.
(b) Built in.
(c) Stone.
(d) Wooden.

2. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?
(a) He tended his horses.
(b) He did not work.
(c) He worked in his garden.
(d) He collected sap from the trees.

3. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?
(a) Raddishes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Corn.
(d) Carrots.

4. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?
(a) The use of religious music.
(b) Rock and roll music.
(c) Electric music.
(d) Sermons.

5. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?
(a) Grey.
(b) Red.
(c) Moss-green.
(d) Brown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

2. When the Nearings talked about being vegetarians, which neighbors changed their habits and also became vegetarians?

3. What does healthy soil teem with?

4. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?

5. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?

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