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

2. How could a competent wood worker determine where a tree would fall?
(a) By pushing it in the right direction.
(b) By properly notching and sawing the tree.
(c) By listening to the wood as it is chopped.
(d) By guessing.

3. What did Greg Summers, the man from Wisconsin with a background in art, do for cash?
(a) He sold plants.
(b) He photographed the Nearings.
(c) He painted.
(d) He took printshop jobs.

4. What makes the best fertilizer naturally, according to the Nearings?
(a) Hay.
(b) Wood.
(c) The outhouse.
(d) The forest.

5. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In the garden, covered.
(b) In the greenhouse.
(c) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(d) In the refrigerator.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What happened to the fords that the Nearings built when they first moved to Vermont?

4. What are enlarged "cold frames?"

5. How did the Nearings obtain a freezer?

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