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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of apple did the one apple tree grow that was near the blueberry plantation?
(a) A candy green apple.
(b) A Greening-type apple.
(c) A Red Delicious apple.
(d) A bushel apple.

2. How much did the Nearings use a mowing machine?
(a) For 2 months out of the year.
(b) For 3 months during the summer.
(c) About 6 or 8 hours a year.
(d) For 2 weeks in the year.

3. What were "cold frames?"
(a) Wooden frames glazed by glass near ground level.
(b) Cloth covers over ground plants.
(c) Plastic covers over ground plants.
(d) Refrigerators.

4. What caused a cellar to be too warm for the Nearings?
(a) A cellar not built far enough underground.
(b) A wet cellar.
(c) A source of heat in the cellar.
(d) The heat of the summer.

5. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?
(a) The Japanese way.
(b) The Russian way.
(c) The Chinese way.
(d) The Iowa way.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many miles did the Nearings move from Vermont to Maine?

2. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?

3. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?

4. What angered Scott about some visitors that came in one morning just before the Nearings decided to move to Maine?

5. In Maine, what would an average family of 4 or 5 adults and children require to produce a minimum amount of vegetables?

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