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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 events were held on Saturday nights in the small Vermont town?
(a) Swap meets.
(b) Bar dances.
(c) Square dances.
(d) Movies.

2. Who did Frederick Van de Water represent during the mail battle?
(a) The U.S. Government.
(b) Freeman Inc.
(c) Ski Enterprises.
(d) Forestry development.

3. What direction do the rows in a garden need to be planted to assure maximum sun to the roots?
(a) North and South.
(b) Not in rows, but in pods.
(c) At right angles.
(d) East and West.

4. Who was the local mailman in the valley in Vermont in 1945?
(a) Harold Field.
(b) Wallace Crowninshield.
(c) Walter Twing.
(d) Floyd Hurd.

5. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) In their 20s.
(b) Approaching fifty.
(c) 70.
(d) 68 and 69.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who could "smell a frost coming?"

2. Upon arriving in Vermont, who sold the Nearings milk?

3. What political persuasion were most Vermonters?

4. What did the boys serving in the war do to help the valley when the mail was canceled?

5. During the cancellation of the mail route in 1945 in Vermont, what were the citizens asked to do?

(see the answer key)

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