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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 color did the Nearings paint their roof?
(a) Moss-green.
(b) Brown.
(c) Red.
(d) Grey.

2. How did the Nearings divide their "jobs to be done" on their card index of activities?
(a) By "building projects" and "garden projects."
(b) By "wood and fuel jobs" and "canning."
(c) By "clear weather jobs" and "rainy day jobs."
(d) By "cash labor" and "free labor."

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

4. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Keeping it sharp.
(b) Let Helen keep it.
(c) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.
(d) Keep it inside the house.

5. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(b) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.
(c) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.
(d) They were easy to build with.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?

2. How did the Nearings hold the concrete and stones in place to form the wall?

3. How was each work day divided up?

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

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

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