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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 did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?
(a) By "wood and fuel jobs" and "canning."
(b) By "clear weather jobs" and "rainy day jobs."
(c) By "cash labor" and "free labor."
(d) By "building projects" and "garden projects."

2. What were colonists who moved from England to New England not concerned with?
(a) Survival.
(b) Animals.
(c) Conservation.
(d) Farming.

3. How often did the Nearings have a crop failure with blueberries?
(a) Twice.
(b) Every other year.
(c) Four times.
(d) Never.

4. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 50 percent.
(c) 30 percent.
(d) 10 percent.

5. According to the author, who defined the "small community"?
(a) The Nearings.
(b) Arthur E. Morgan, Baker Brrownell, and Ralph Borsodi.
(c) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(d) The state.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings have to do to pick their sweet peas?

2. How did the Nearings decide to "warn" people before they arrived about life on their farm?

3. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?

4. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?

5. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

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