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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 happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?
(a) They fell asleep in the shade of the garden.
(b) They were escaping and never returned.
(c) They stayed later and worked most of the afternoon.
(d) Their productivity was very high.

2. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?
(a) They didn't want to move to the west coast.
(b) They didn't want to work with other people.
(c) There were none available or functioning into which they could have happily and effectively fit.
(d) They didn't want to move to Europe.

3. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?
(a) In their heads.
(b) On loose sheets of paper.
(c) On a computer.
(d) In notebooks.

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

5. What did the Nearings call the dwarf peas they grew on trellises?
(a) "Trellis" varieties.
(b) "Telephone" varieties.
(c) "Sky High" varieties.
(d) "Pole" varieties.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?

2. What are the disadvantages to pit growing in a greenhouse, according to the Nearings?

3. How was each work day divided up?

4. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?

5. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?

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