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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Four though Six.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the Nearings NEVER buy?
(a) Candy, pastries, meats, soft drinks, alcohol, tea, coffee, or tobacco.
(b) Oils.
(c) Avacados.
(d) Fresh fruits and vegetables.

2. What did the Nearings grow under a heavy hay mulch that required no hoeing, no bugs, no spraying, and almost no digging?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Corn.
(c) Carrots.
(d) Raddishes.

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

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

5. In the breakdown of the Nearing's diet, how much of percentage was their intake of fruit?
(a) 20 percent.
(b) 30 percent.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 50 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings use as silverware?

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

3. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?

4. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?

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

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