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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Continuing the Good LIfe, Chapters Eleven through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the Nearings know that they were on the right track with their winter gardening?
(a) When they ate a fresh salad.
(b) When they canned all their food.
(c) When they had food all winter long.
(d) When visitors came and they had enough to eat.

2. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?
(a) At waist-high level.
(b) On the level with the house.
(c) Up three steps.
(d) Below sea level.

3. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) The Nearings.
(d) The state.

4. What are cloches?
(a) Small plastic enclosures for individual plants.
(b) Glass enclosures for several plants.
(c) Small paper bag enclosures for individual plants.
(d) Small glass enclosures for individual plants.

5. Who did all the stonework on the house in Maine?
(a) Scott.
(b) Visitors.
(c) Helen.
(d) Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?

2. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

3. What color did the Nearings paint their roof?

4. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?

5. How did the Nearings decide to "warn" people before they arrived about life on their farm?

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