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

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

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

4. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?
(a) 1/2 of the cost.
(b) 3/4 of the cost.
(c) 99 percent of the cost.
(d) 1/3 of the cost.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

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