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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. The Nearings thought living in Vermont would be justified as an example of sane living in an _____________.
(a) Removed area.
(b) Utopian society.
(c) Sane world.
(d) Insane world.

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

3. Why is bed gardening considered such a good idea?
(a) The plants are planted in rows and so much easer to hoe.
(b) Plants are planted by color.
(c) The gardener keeps his feet in the walkways and does not pack down the seed rows.
(d) Plant types all planted together so each bed has only one plant type.

4. What did the Nearings use to cook in?
(a) Pottery only.
(b) Stainless steel, enamel, pottery, or glass vessels.
(c) Granite pots.
(d) Tin pans.

5. Who could "smell a frost coming?"
(a) Helen.
(b) Jack Lightfoot.
(c) Scott.
(d) Floyd Hurd.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

2. What was the Nearing's sugarhouse stack known for?

3. When the Nearings sent samples of their garden soil to be analyzed by the University of Maine, what were the results?

4. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?

5. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?

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