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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. How did the Nearings light their home?
(a) With kerosene and candles.
(b) Candles.
(c) Gas.
(d) Electricity.

2. How did the Nearings make applesauce?
(a) They chopped up the apples and stored them through the winter until it was applesauce time.
(b) They froze them in the freezer.
(c) They strained the apples through cheesecloth and canned them.
(d) The "open kettle" way.

3. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?
(a) 1 week before you bake.
(b) Right before you bake.
(c) 1 month before you bake.
(d) 3 days before you bake.

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

5. 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) 1/3 yellow, 1/2 green and leafy, and 1/3 juicy.
(d) Juicy only.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

2. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

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

4. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?

5. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

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