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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 are the disadvantages to pit growing in a greenhouse, according to the Nearings?
(a) The step down out of the house.
(b) Dampness.
(c) The ground is too hard.
(d) The soil is not good.

2. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?
(a) Wait until cold days and pick them frozen.
(b) Pick them early and can them to add flavor.
(c) Wait until a sunny day with a southern wind and pick them then.
(d) Wait until rainy days and pick them when wet.

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

4. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It hurts the liver.
(b) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(c) It hurts the heart.
(d) Nothing.

5. What was inserted into the compost pile to help break down matter?
(a) Ants.
(b) Bees.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Earth worms and worm capsules.

Short Answer Questions

1. After living in the mountains, where did the Nearings want to live in their new home?

2. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

3. What, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?

4. What are enlarged "cold frames?"

5. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

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