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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Keep it inside the house.
(b) Keeping it sharp.
(c) Let Helen keep it.
(d) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.

2. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With movable forms.
(b) With metal sheets.
(c) With bricks.
(d) With styrofoam.

3. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For bathing.
(c) For fresh water.
(d) For fishing.

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

5. What did the Nearings eat from?
(a) Plastic plates.
(b) Plates.
(c) China.
(d) Wooden bowls.

Short Answer Questions

1. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?

2. What, according to the Nearings, made a parsnip tasty?

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

4. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.

5. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?

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