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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 generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(d) In the refrigerator.

2. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They ran the water to the garden.
(b) They plugged it up.
(c) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.
(d) They ran the water to the outhouse.

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

4. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?
(a) In notebooks.
(b) In their heads.
(c) On loose sheets of paper.
(d) On a computer.

5. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) A terrible stench.
(b) Food.
(c) Wood.
(d) Organic life.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?

2. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?

3. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

4. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

5. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

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