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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 was the Sunday morning musical events divided?
(a) Into religious and non-religious music.
(b) Into classical and pop music.
(c) Into amateur and professional music.
(d) Into instrumental and vocal music.

2. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?
(a) At waist-high level.
(b) On the level with the house.
(c) Up three steps.
(d) Below sea level.

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

4. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?
(a) He collected sap from the trees.
(b) He did not work.
(c) He worked in his garden.
(d) He tended his horses.

5. When the Nearings talked about being vegetarians, which neighbors changed their habits and also became vegetarians?
(a) None.
(b) Only a neighbor man who stayed with them for a long while.
(c) Most of their neighbors.
(d) 2 close friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?

3. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

4. How was each work day divided up?

5. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?

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