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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. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(b) They brought them home from their travels abroad.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They collected them around their farm.

2. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?
(a) 10 percent.
(b) 99 percent.
(c) Nine-tenths.
(d) 3/4ths.

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

4. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?
(a) The Jamaica Post Office.
(b) The ski resorts.
(c) The movie theater.
(d) The grocery store.

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 chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?

2. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

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

4. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?

5. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

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