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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. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?
(a) He liked the work, but hated their food.
(b) He thrived in the environment.
(c) He worked with them for 15 years.
(d) The work schedule was too rigid.

2. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?
(a) A cliff overlooking the water.
(b) A 26 foot split boulder.
(c) A rock ledge over a waterfall.
(d) A level meadow.

3. What purpose do the stones serve in the greenhouse?
(a) They act as radiators.
(b) They are pretty to look at.
(c) They are solid and will not fall.
(d) They are cool in the summer.

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

5. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?
(a) The previous owners
(b) The Nearings had cows.
(c) The Lightfoots.
(d) The local grocery.

Short Answer Questions

1. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?

2. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

3. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

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

5. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?

(see the answer key)

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