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

2. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?
(a) Bend and kneel on the ground.
(b) Stand on a stool or ladder.
(c) Hoe the row and pull them out.
(d) Put at ladder up in a tree.

3. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?
(a) Dairy.
(b) Vegetables.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Syrup and sugar.

4. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?
(a) They stayed later and worked most of the afternoon.
(b) They fell asleep in the shade of the garden.
(c) Their productivity was very high.
(d) They were escaping and never returned.

5. Who could "smell a frost coming?"
(a) Scott.
(b) Floyd Hurd.
(c) Jack Lightfoot.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was each work day divided up?

2. What did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?

3. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?

4. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?

5. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

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