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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. Why did the Nearings want a pond?
(a) For swimming and ice skating and as a source of irrigation for the garden.
(b) For fresh water.
(c) For bathing.
(d) For fishing.

2. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Vermont farm.
(b) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.
(c) The Madingly family place.
(d) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.

3. How were the Nearings travel expenses paid when they were asked to speak or lecture?
(a) They had a travel allowance in their budget.
(b) They had rich relatives.
(c) The borrowed the money.
(d) Their travel expenses were paid for by those who asked them to talk.

4. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 10 x 10 feet square.
(b) 8 x 8 feet square.
(c) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.
(d) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

2. What were colonists who moved from England to New England not concerned with?

3. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?

4. What does healthy soil teem with?

5. What did most friends of the Nearings dub their guesthouses?

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