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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) Greene and Greene.
(b) Ernest Flagg.
(c) Stickley.
(d) Minnie Pearl.

2. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) In their 20s.
(b) 70.
(c) Approaching fifty.
(d) 68 and 69.

3. How did the Nearings keep records of their projects at the farm?
(a) In notebooks.
(b) On loose sheets of paper.
(c) On a computer.
(d) In their heads.

4. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?
(a) A well.
(b) A visitor's center.
(c) A garage.
(d) A campsite.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of schedule did the Nearings keep on Sunday?

2. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?

3. What kind of roofs did the Nearings put on their houses?

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

5. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?

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