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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. What are enlarged "cold frames?"
(a) Freezers,
(b) Cellars.
(c) Wood sheds.
(d) Greenhouses.

2. How did the Nearings plant their greenhouse?
(a) Plants on a sloping hill.
(b) Plants at waist level.
(c) Plants on the ground level.
(d) Plants below ground level.

3. What is a dowsing rod used to find?
(a) Fish.
(b) Food.
(c) Water.
(d) Trees.

4. What did the Nearings compare their gardening style to?
(a) The Japanese way.
(b) The Chinese way.
(c) The Russian way.
(d) The Iowa way.

5. How much of the Maine farm was a woodlot?
(a) Only a few square feet.
(b) About four-fifths.
(c) One-fifth.
(d) About 85 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How deep was the stone garden wall in Maine?

2. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

3. What did the Nearings build their greenhouses out of?

4. What is Celtus?

5. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

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