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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. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?
(a) 30 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

2. What did the Nearings eat for breakfast?
(a) Ice cream.
(b) Bacon and eggs.
(c) Fresh fruit and yogurt.
(d) Fruit, sunflower seeds, and a black molasses drink or tea.

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

4. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They brought them home from their travels abroad.
(b) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They collected them around their farm.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

2. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?

3. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

4. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

5. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?

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