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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 kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?
(a) They went to church in the morning and worked in the afternoon.
(b) They had no schedule.
(c) They ate breakfast in silence.
(d) They attended praise worship and then had amatuer music shows in the evening.

2. What did the Nearings find about growing pole beans and sweet peas?
(a) The greenhouse did not work for tall plants.
(b) They plants did not have a long growing season.
(c) They found they were using longer and higher poles and trellises.
(d) They did not like growing tall plants.

3. Which way should a garden slope to get maximum sun exposure and good drainage?
(a) Tumbling down the west.
(b) Rolling to the north.
(c) Gently toward the south.
(d) To the east for sunrise.

4. What kind of roofs did the Nearings put on their houses?
(a) Shingle.
(b) Tar.
(c) Tile.
(d) Low-lying and metal.

5. How many blueberry plants did the Nearings plant their first spring in Maine?
(a) 5.
(b) 228.
(c) 562.
(d) 1088.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?

2. How did the Nearings get most of the clothes they wore?

3. How many years did it take before the Nearings had blueberries to sell?

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

5. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

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