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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.
(a) Working farm.
(b) Useful vegetable garden.
(c) Functioning homestead.
(d) Vacation home.

2. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?
(a) With bricks.
(b) With styrofoam.
(c) With metal sheets.
(d) With movable forms.

3. What kind of roofs did the Nearings put on their houses?
(a) Tar.
(b) Low-lying and metal.
(c) Tile.
(d) Shingle.

4. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?
(a) They went to church in the morning and worked in the afternoon.
(b) They ate breakfast in silence.
(c) They attended praise worship and then had amatuer music shows in the evening.
(d) They had no schedule.

5. How was each work day divided up?
(a) 8 hours days with a lunch and two breaks.
(b) 4 hours of work and 4 hours of discussion.
(c) 4 morning hours and 4 afternnoon hours.
(d) 4 hours of inside work and 4 hours of outside work.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?

2. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?

3. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?

4. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

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

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