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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. In Vermont, what did the Nearings NOT use to keep food cold?
(a) Canned goods stored in an underground cellar.
(b) The cellar.
(c) Storage bins covered with leaves.
(d) An icebox, refrigerator, or freezing unit.

2. What, according to the Nearings, is the food furthest removed from the soil?
(a) Fresh dairy from a neighbor.
(b) The produce in your grocery store.
(c) The farmer's market produce.
(d) Cooked caracasses of beasts, birds, and fish.

3. 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) Let Helen keep it.
(d) Keeping it sharp.

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

5. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With bricks.
(b) With styrofoam.
(c) With metal sheets.
(d) With movable forms.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?

2. What kind of roofs did the Nearings put on their houses?

3. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

4. What does healthy soil teem with?

5. What did the Nearings eat from?

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