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

2. What kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?
(a) Built in.
(b) Folding.
(c) Stone.
(d) Wooden.

3. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?
(a) They attended praise worship and then had amatuer music shows in the evening.
(b) They had no schedule.
(c) They went to church in the morning and worked in the afternoon.
(d) They ate breakfast in silence.

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

5. 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) A spring on the high side of the garden.
(c) The threat of fire.
(d) A sinkhole the size of a large truck.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?

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