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

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

3. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?
(a) Worms.
(b) Sawdust.
(c) Wood.
(d) Paper.

4. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?
(a) Vegetables.
(b) Syrup and sugar.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Dairy.

5. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In the greenhouse.
(b) In the garden, covered.
(c) In the refrigerator.
(d) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

2. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

3. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

4. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.

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

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