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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, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By burning areas of the forest.
(b) By composting.
(c) By burning leaves.
(d) By using soil from the forest only.

2. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.
(b) They were easy to build with.
(c) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(d) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.

3. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) Food.
(b) A terrible stench.
(c) Wood.
(d) Organic life.

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

5. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By eating with the seasons.
(b) By canning early in the season.
(c) By freezing food.
(d) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?

2. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?

3. How did the Nearings plant their greenhouse?

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

5. When the Nearings planted their first garden in Maine, what was the first problem they encountered with local animals?

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