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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life Continues, Chapters Five through Ten.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $150.00.
(b) $15.00.
(c) $20.00.
(d) They traded for it.

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

3. What did Walter Twing do on Saturdays?
(a) He collected sap from the trees.
(b) He tended his horses.
(c) He did not work.
(d) He worked in his garden.

4. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?
(a) The use of religious music.
(b) Electric music.
(c) Rock and roll music.
(d) Sermons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Vermont, what mountain did the Nearings live at the foot of?

2. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?

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

4. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

5. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

(see the answer key)

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