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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Continuing the Good LIfe, Chapters One through Four.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?
(a) Nearly 80.
(b) Over 50.
(c) Almost 40.
(d) About 10.

2. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?
(a) He collected sap from the trees.
(b) He did not work.
(c) He tended his horses.
(d) He worked in his garden.

3. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?
(a) A sinkhole the size of a large truck.
(b) A spring on the high side of the garden.
(c) Deer that kept eating the apples.
(d) The threat of fire.

4. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?
(a) Walter Twing.
(b) Floyd Hurd.
(c) Wallace Crowninshield.
(d) Harold Field.

5. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?
(a) With a weed-eater.
(b) Heavy mulch and sawdust.
(c) With chemical sprays.
(d) By constant weeding.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?

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

4. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?

5. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

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