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

2. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?
(a) Bend and kneel on the ground.
(b) Put at ladder up in a tree.
(c) Stand on a stool or ladder.
(d) Hoe the row and pull them out.

3. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.
(a) Removed area.
(b) Utopian society.
(c) Sane world.
(d) Insane world.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

2. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

3. How far apart were the Nearing's compost piles?

4. What percentage of the food they ate did the Nearings produce?

5. What, according to the Nearings, made a parsnip tasty?

(see the answer key)

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