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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. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?
(a) They didn't want to move to Europe.
(b) They didn't want to work with other people.
(c) They didn't want to move to the west coast.
(d) There were none available or functioning into which they could have happily and effectively fit.

2. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) The state.
(c) The Nearings.
(d) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.

3. What did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Fish.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Corned beef and cabbage, beef stew or hash.

4. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They ran the water to the garden.
(b) They ran the water to the outhouse.
(c) They plugged it up.
(d) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.

5. What was the one negative item about the pond?
(a) Moss.
(b) The water was always too hot.
(c) Trash.
(d) Leaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are enlarged "cold frames?"

2. How much did the Nearings use a mowing machine?

3. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?

4. How many years did it take before the Nearings had blueberries to sell?

5. What kind of events were held on Saturday nights in the small Vermont town?

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