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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. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?
(a) Pennsylvania was too crowded.
(b) They hated the barns in Pennsylvania.
(c) They wanted a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
(d) The land costs were more reasonable.

2. What did the Nearings use to cook in?
(a) Pottery only.
(b) Granite pots.
(c) Stainless steel, enamel, pottery, or glass vessels.
(d) Tin pans.

3. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were easy to build with.
(b) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(c) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.
(d) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.

4. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?
(a) Deer that kept eating the apples.
(b) A sinkhole the size of a large truck.
(c) The threat of fire.
(d) A spring on the high side of the garden.

5. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Vermont farm.
(b) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.
(c) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.
(d) The Madingly family place.

Short Answer Questions

1. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?

2. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

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

4. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?

5. What did the Nearings eat from?

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