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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. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?
(a) Through the door in the kitchen.
(b) Through the cellar.
(c) Through a side door from the garage.
(d) Through a double front door.

2. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They plugged it up.
(b) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.
(c) They ran the water to the garden.
(d) They ran the water to the outhouse.

3. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?
(a) Moss-green.
(b) Red.
(c) Brown.
(d) Grey.

4. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.
(b) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.
(c) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(d) They were easy to build with.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?

2. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?

3. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

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

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

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