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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. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?
(a) They made them from their sheep.
(b) They bought them on trips to New York.
(c) They too hand-me-downs from neighbors.
(d) They bought them in thrift shops and rummage sales.

2. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?
(a) Into amateur and professional music.
(b) Into religious and non-religious music.
(c) Into classical and pop music.
(d) Into instrumental and vocal music.

3. When the Nearings planted their first garden in Maine, what was the first problem they encountered with local animals?
(a) The deer were eating the seeds.
(b) The kittens were eating the seeds.
(c) The racoons were eating the seeds.
(d) The birds were eating the seeds.

4. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By using soil from the forest only.
(b) By burning areas of the forest.
(c) By composting.
(d) By burning leaves.

5. What did the Nearings find about growing pole beans and sweet peas?
(a) The greenhouse did not work for tall plants.
(b) They plants did not have a long growing season.
(c) They did not like growing tall plants.
(d) They found they were using longer and higher poles and trellises.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the Nearings use bagged commercial fertililzer commonly sold to farmers?

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

3. What does healthy soil teem with?

4. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

5. How did the Nearings light their home?

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