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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, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.
(b) Keep it inside the house.
(c) Keeping it sharp.
(d) Let Helen keep it.

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

3. What kind of events were held on Saturday nights in the small Vermont town?
(a) Square dances.
(b) Bar dances.
(c) Movies.
(d) Swap meets.

4. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $20.00.
(b) $150.00.
(c) They traded for it.
(d) $15.00.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?

2. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?

3. How long had Jacklight foot lived in the valley?

4. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?

5. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?

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