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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With movable forms.
(b) With styrofoam.
(c) With metal sheets.
(d) With bricks.

2. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?
(a) Write their representatives.
(b) Call their representatives.
(c) Stop writing letters.
(d) Write lots of letters home.

3. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?
(a) A chicken coop.
(b) A barn.
(c) A guesthouse.
(d) A detached cellar.

4. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?
(a) 3/4ths.
(b) Nine-tenths.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 99 percent.

5. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.
(b) 8 x 8 feet square.
(c) 10 x 10 feet square.
(d) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings decide to "warn" people before they arrived about life on their farm?

2. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?

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

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

5. How did the Nearings ask workers how much they wanted for a job on the farm?

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