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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 store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(b) In the greenhouse.
(c) In the refrigerator.
(d) In the garden, covered.

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

3. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?
(a) By "wood and fuel jobs" and "canning."
(b) By "clear weather jobs" and "rainy day jobs."
(c) By "building projects" and "garden projects."
(d) By "cash labor" and "free labor."

4. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 10 x 10 feet square.
(b) 8 x 8 feet square.
(c) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.
(d) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.

5. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the liver.
(b) It hurts the heart.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?

2. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?

3. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?

4. What kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?

5. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?

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