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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 did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?
(a) A rock ledge over a waterfall.
(b) A level meadow.
(c) A 26 foot split boulder.
(d) A cliff overlooking the water.

2. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Let Helen keep it.
(b) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.
(c) Keep it inside the house.
(d) Keeping it sharp.

3. How was each work day divided up?
(a) 4 morning hours and 4 afternnoon hours.
(b) 4 hours of inside work and 4 hours of outside work.
(c) 4 hours of work and 4 hours of discussion.
(d) 8 hours days with a lunch and two breaks.

4. Who taught the Nearings to make maple syrup?
(a) Walter Twing.
(b) Zoe and Floyd Hurd.
(c) Harold Field.
(d) Nobody. They researched it and learned from books.

5. When building the new stone house in Vermont, what did the Nearings include?
(a) A detached cellar.
(b) A guesthouse.
(c) A barn.
(d) A chicken coop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?

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

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

4. What did the Nearings eat from?

5. Who attended the party when the mail route was restored in Vermont?

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