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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. What did the Nearings use to cook in?
(a) Pottery only.
(b) Stainless steel, enamel, pottery, or glass vessels.
(c) Granite pots.
(d) Tin pans.

2. How did the Nearings make applesauce?
(a) They froze them in the freezer.
(b) The "open kettle" way.
(c) They chopped up the apples and stored them through the winter until it was applesauce time.
(d) They strained the apples through cheesecloth and canned them.

3. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) A terrible stench.
(b) Food.
(c) Wood.
(d) Organic life.

4. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?
(a) 1/2 yellow and the rest juicy.
(b) Juicy only.
(c) 1/3 yellow, 1/2 green and leafy, and 1/3 juicy.
(d) 1/2 green and the rest juicy.

5. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?
(a) By "building projects" and "garden projects."
(b) By "clear weather jobs" and "rainy day jobs."
(c) By "cash labor" and "free labor."
(d) By "wood and fuel jobs" and "canning."

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?

2. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?

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

4. What did the Nearings eat from?

5. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

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