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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?
(a) Stone.
(b) Folding.
(c) Wooden.
(d) Built in.

2. What did some people think of the Nearings when they visited them in Vermont?
(a) That they were sloppy.
(b) That they were uncordial.
(c) That they were too old to be working on a farm.
(d) That they would go hungry if they stayed.

3. What was the relationship between the Nearings and law enforcement?
(a) They never saw a uniformed policeman pass along the dirt road in front of their house.
(b) They were good friends with the sheriff.
(c) Scott was a volunteer policeman.
(d) They were constantly harrassed by the area police.

4. What political persuasion were most Vermonters?
(a) Democrat.
(b) Independents.
(c) Communist.
(d) Republican.

5. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how was the intake of vegetables broken down?
(a) 1/2 green and the rest juicy.
(b) 1/3 yellow, 1/2 green and leafy, and 1/3 juicy.
(c) 1/2 yellow and the rest juicy.
(d) Juicy only.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?

2. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?

3. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?

4. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

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

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