The Good Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Good Life Quiz | Eight Week Quiz F

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. What was the Nearing's sugarhouse stack known for?
(a) You could see the flame for miles.
(b) It was made out of stone.
(c) It was the first concrete stack in Vermont.
(d) It burned hotter than any other stack in the area.

2. How could a competent wood worker determine where a tree would fall?
(a) By guessing.
(b) By pushing it in the right direction.
(c) By properly notching and sawing the tree.
(d) By listening to the wood as it is chopped.

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

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

5. What purpose do the stones serve in the greenhouse?
(a) They act as radiators.
(b) They are cool in the summer.
(c) They are pretty to look at.
(d) They are solid and will not fall.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?

3. The Nearings claimed that they were planning not a business, but a __________.

4. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?

5. Why did the Nearings want a pond?

(see the answer key)

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