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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) Stone.
(b) Wooden.
(c) Built in.
(d) Folding.

2. How did the Nearings get stones to build their buildings?
(a) They collected them around their farm.
(b) They cut them from large slates of granite.
(c) They bought them from a gravel company.
(d) They brought them home from their travels abroad.

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

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

5. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?
(a) Through a side door from the garage.
(b) Through a double front door.
(c) Through the cellar.
(d) Through the door in the kitchen.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the Nearings NOT join a communal experience?

2. What did the Nearings sell as a cash crop in Vermont?

3. How was each work day divided up?

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

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

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