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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. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For fresh water.
(c) For fishing.
(d) For bathing.

2. What should be recorded on paper when a homesteader is working a farm?
(a) Daily food eaten.
(b) A 20 year plan.
(c) Daily receipts.
(d) A plan for each day, week and month.

3. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.
(a) Functioning homestead.
(b) Working farm.
(c) Vacation home.
(d) Useful vegetable garden.

4. What kind of apple did the one apple tree grow that was near the blueberry plantation?
(a) A Red Delicious apple.
(b) A bushel apple.
(c) A candy green apple.
(d) A Greening-type apple.

5. What was the nearest airport to the house in Maine?
(a) Bangor, Maine.
(b) Boston.
(c) St. Louis.
(d) New York.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How much did the Nearings use a mowing machine?

3. What are cloches?

4. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

5. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

(see the answer key)

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