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

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

3. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?
(a) They attended praise worship and then had amatuer music shows in the evening.
(b) They ate breakfast in silence.
(c) They had no schedule.
(d) They went to church in the morning and worked in the afternoon.

4. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?
(a) Bees.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Ants.
(d) Earth worms and worm capsules.

5. What did the Nearings eat from?
(a) Plastic plates.
(b) Plates.
(c) China.
(d) Wooden bowls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?

2. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?

3. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?

4. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

5. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

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