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

2. Who did all the pointing work on the house in Maine?
(a) Scott.
(b) Helen.
(c) Keith.
(d) Bretton,

3. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 20 percent.
(c) 50 percent.
(d) 30 percent.

4. What is Celtus?
(a) A basketball team.
(b) A red plant with berries.
(c) A tempature devise.
(d) A plant midway between celery and lettuce.

5. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?
(a) 1/2 of the cost.
(b) 99 percent of the cost.
(c) 1/3 of the cost.
(d) 3/4 of the cost.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Nearings harvest Chinese cabbage in the cold weather?

3. Why did the Nearings want a pond?

4. What is "wooding-it?"

5. What was the one negative item about the pond?

(see the answer key)

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