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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 size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 8 x 8 feet square.
(b) 10 x 10 feet square.
(c) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.
(d) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.

2. What political persuasion were most Vermonters?
(a) Republican.
(b) Democrat.
(c) Communist.
(d) Independents.

3. What was the subsoil of the pond area?
(a) Red clay.
(b) Yellow clay.
(c) Mud.
(d) Black dirt.

4. What did most friends of the Nearings dub their guesthouses?
(a) The "uncomfortable bed inn."
(b) The "free inn."
(c) The "homeless inn."
(d) The "Waldorf."

5. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.
(b) They ran the water to the garden.
(c) They ran the water to the outhouse.
(d) They plugged it up.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

3. Other than the wood on the land, what other sources did the Nearings use for wood?

4. What were colonists who moved from England to New England not concerned with?

5. What did the Nearings eat from?

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