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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 high did the blueberry plants get?
(a) 12 feet.
(b) 1 foot.
(c) 7 feet.
(d) 3 feet.

2. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?
(a) Call the Postmaster General.
(b) Write the Postmaster General and then Senators and Representatives.
(c) Gather for a peaceful demonstration.
(d) Write to the President of the United States.

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

4. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?
(a) Illness.
(b) The absence of health.
(c) Sickness.
(d) Something that causes death.

5. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For fresh water.
(c) For bathing.
(d) For fishing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

2. What newspapers got on board to help the citizens of the valley then the mail was canceled?

3. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

4. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

5. What did the Nearings eat from?

(see the answer key)

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