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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Four though Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?
(a) Illness.
(b) Something that causes death.
(c) Sickness.
(d) The absence of health.

4. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They ran the water to the outhouse.
(b) They plugged it up.
(c) They ran the water to the garden.
(d) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Nearings light their home?

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

3. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

4. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

5. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?

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