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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Four though Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. At the Nearing's house, what "rounded out" breakfast?
(a) A handful of cranberries.
(b) Cereal with milk.
(c) A handful of sunflower seeds.
(d) Coffee.

3. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?
(a) Below sea level.
(b) Up three steps.
(c) On the level with the house.
(d) At waist-high level.

4. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They brought them home from their travels abroad.
(b) They collected them around their farm.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They cut them from large slates of granite.

5. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?
(a) Oils.
(b) Candy, pastries, meats, soft drinks, alcohol, tea, coffee, or tobacco.
(c) Fresh fruits and vegetables.
(d) Avacados.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings eat from?

2. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

3. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?

4. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?

5. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?

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