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

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

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

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

5. 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 ate breakfast in silence.
(c) They went to church in the morning and worked in the afternoon.
(d) They had no schedule.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?

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

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

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

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