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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. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.
(a) Useful vegetable garden.
(b) Working farm.
(c) Functioning homestead.
(d) Vacation home.

2. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) 70.
(b) In their 20s.
(c) Approaching fifty.
(d) 68 and 69.

3. Who could "smell a frost coming?"
(a) Scott.
(b) Floyd Hurd.
(c) Helen.
(d) Jack Lightfoot.

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

5. What, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?
(a) The mountain top.
(b) A gravel pit.
(c) The forest floor.
(d) The river bed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

3. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

4. What did the Nearings use to cook in?

5. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?

(see the answer key)

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