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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. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?
(a) Through a side door from the garage.
(b) Through the door in the kitchen.
(c) Through a double front door.
(d) Through the cellar.

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

3. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?
(a) The Kansas City Star.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The Chicago Tribune.
(d) The Brattleboro Reformer and the Bennington Banner.

4. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?
(a) 1/2 green and the rest juicy.
(b) 1/3 yellow, 1/2 green and leafy, and 1/3 juicy.
(c) Juicy only.
(d) 1/2 yellow and the rest juicy.

5. What did the Nearings call the dwarf peas they grew on trellises?
(a) "Telephone" varieties.
(b) "Pole" varieties.
(c) "Trellis" varieties.
(d) "Sky High" varieties.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a dowsing rod used to find?

2. How many people could the Nearing's Vermont stone home hold for a meeting?

3. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?

4. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?

5. What was the one thing missing from the experiment in Vermont that young couples would need to take into account with a growing family?

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