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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. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?
(a) Electric music.
(b) The use of religious music.
(c) Rock and roll music.
(d) Sermons.

2. Under optimum conditions, when should wheat be ground if you are baking?
(a) 1 week before you bake.
(b) 3 days before you bake.
(c) Right before you bake.
(d) 1 month before you bake.

3. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In the garden, covered.
(b) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(c) In the greenhouse.
(d) In the refrigerator.

4. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.
(a) Removed area.
(b) Sane world.
(c) Insane world.
(d) Utopian society.

5. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(b) They collected them around their farm.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They brought them home from their travels abroad.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?

3. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

4. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

5. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?

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