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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. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?
(a) A handful of cranberries.
(b) A handful of sunflower seeds.
(c) Coffee.
(d) Cereal with milk.

2. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By composting.
(b) By burning leaves.
(c) By using soil from the forest only.
(d) By burning areas of the forest.

3. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the heart.
(b) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It hurts the liver.

4. In Vermont, what did the Nearings NOT use to keep food cold?
(a) Canned goods stored in an underground cellar.
(b) The cellar.
(c) An icebox, refrigerator, or freezing unit.
(d) Storage bins covered with leaves.

5. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?
(a) Frank Ghery.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(d) Louis Sullivan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

3. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?

4. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?

5. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

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