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

2. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?
(a) They didn't want to move to Europe.
(b) They didn't want to move to the west coast.
(c) They didn't want to work with other people.
(d) There were none available or functioning into which they could have happily and effectively fit.

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

4. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?
(a) Deer that kept eating the apples.
(b) The threat of fire.
(c) A spring on the high side of the garden.
(d) A sinkhole the size of a large truck.

5. 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 ran the water to the garden.
(c) They plugged it up.
(d) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?

2. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?

3. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?

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

5. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?

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