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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 did M.B. Kains recommend that farmers serve to their guests when they came for Sunday dinner?
(a) Meatloaf.
(b) Corned beef and cabbage, beef stew or hash.
(c) Fish.
(d) Pancakes.

2. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) Wood.
(b) Organic life.
(c) A terrible stench.
(d) Food.

3. Who taught the Nearings to make maple syrup?
(a) Harold Field.
(b) Nobody. They researched it and learned from books.
(c) Zoe and Floyd Hurd.
(d) Walter Twing.

4. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They collected them around their farm.
(b) They brought them home from their travels abroad.
(c) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(d) They bought them from a gravel company.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long could the Nearings harvest their fall garden?

2. What, according to the Nearings, is the most extensive and most successful experiment in mulching?

3. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?

4. What kind of roof was on the greenhouse?

5. How long do rhubarb and asparagus beds last before they must be rotated?

(see the answer key)

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