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

2. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?
(a) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(b) Louis Sullivan.
(c) Frank Ghery.
(d) Frank Lloyd Wright.

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

4. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?
(a) Stickley.
(b) Ernest Flagg.
(c) Greene and Greene.
(d) Minnie Pearl.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?

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

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

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