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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. How many days was frost possible on the Vermont homestead?
(a) 260.
(b) 150.
(c) 380.
(d) 50.

2. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(b) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(c) The Nearings.
(d) The state.

3. Forrest Tyson, who did the electrical work on the house in Maine was a teacher where?
(a) University of Hartford.
(b) New York.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Philidelphia public schools.

4. What percentage of the food they ate did the Nearings produce?
(a) 85 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 25 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

5. How deep was the stone garden wall in Maine?
(a) 30 to 48 inches.
(b) 24 to 26 inches.
(c) 4 to 5 inches.
(d) 62 to 98 inches.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?

2. What, according to the Nearings, is the food furthest removed from the soil?

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

4. What were colonists who moved from England to New England not concerned with?

5. What did the Nearings use to excavate the pond bed with?

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