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

2. What is Celtus?
(a) A red plant with berries.
(b) A plant midway between celery and lettuce.
(c) A basketball team.
(d) A tempature devise.

3. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner.
(c) The Kansas City Star.
(d) The Chicago Tribune.

4. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?
(a) The were given one.
(b) They inherited one.
(c) They bought one.
(d) They traded for one.

5. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?
(a) They too hand-me-downs from neighbors.
(b) They bought them on trips to New York.
(c) They bought them in thrift shops and rummage sales.
(d) They made them from their sheep.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings eat for breakfast?

2. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?

3. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?

4. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?

5. What did most friends of the Nearings dub their guesthouses?

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