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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 did the Nearings use as silverware?
(a) They fingers.
(b) Sterling silver silverware.
(c) Chopsticks.
(d) Plastic silverware.

2. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?
(a) Raddishes.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Corn.

3. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?
(a) By composting.
(b) By burning areas of the forest.
(c) By burning leaves.
(d) By using soil from the forest only.

4. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?
(a) Put at ladder up in a tree.
(b) Stand on a stool or ladder.
(c) Hoe the row and pull them out.
(d) Bend and kneel on the ground.

5. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Stickley.
(b) Greene and Greene.
(c) Minnie Pearl.
(d) Ernest Flagg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?

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

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

4. What political persuasion were most Vermonters?

5. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?

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