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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 eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By canning early in the season.
(b) By eating with the seasons.
(c) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(d) By freezing food.

2. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?
(a) Write the Postmaster General and then Senators and Representatives.
(b) Write to the President of the United States.
(c) Gather for a peaceful demonstration.
(d) Call the Postmaster General.

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

4. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?
(a) They did not drain the water.
(b) They cracked and broke.
(c) They heaved and came out of the ground.
(d) They worked great.

5. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?
(a) Pennsylvania was too crowded.
(b) They wanted a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
(c) They hated the barns in Pennsylvania.
(d) The land costs were more reasonable.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?

4. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

5. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?

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