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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, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the heart.
(b) It hurts the liver.
(c) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(d) Nothing.

2. What did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?
(a) Fish.
(b) Corned beef and cabbage, beef stew or hash.
(c) Meatloaf.
(d) Pancakes.

3. What was NEVER used in the compost pile?
(a) Worms.
(b) Paper.
(c) Sawdust.
(d) Wood.

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

5. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With styrofoam.
(b) With bricks.
(c) With movable forms.
(d) With metal sheets.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?

3. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?

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

5. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?

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