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

2. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?
(a) Right before you bake.
(b) 1 month before you bake.
(c) 1 week before you bake.
(d) 3 days before you bake.

3. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) The Nearings.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) The state.
(d) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.

4. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?
(a) On loose sheets of paper.
(b) On a computer.
(c) In their heads.
(d) In notebooks.

5. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?
(a) Over 50.
(b) About 10.
(c) Nearly 80.
(d) Almost 40.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was the one thing missing from the experiment in Vermont that young couples would need to take into account with a growing family?

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

4. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

5. What kind of events were held on Saturday nights in the small Vermont town?

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