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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Four though Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?
(a) Avacados.
(b) Oils.
(c) Candy, pastries, meats, soft drinks, alcohol, tea, coffee, or tobacco.
(d) Fresh fruits and vegetables.

2. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?
(a) 1/2 green and the rest juicy.
(b) 1/2 yellow and the rest juicy.
(c) Juicy only.
(d) 1/3 yellow, 1/2 green and leafy, and 1/3 juicy.

3. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By freezing food.
(b) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(c) By eating with the seasons.
(d) By canning early in the season.

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

5. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?
(a) 3/4ths.
(b) 99 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) Nine-tenths.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?

2. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?

3. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

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

5. How did the Nearings light their home?

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