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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 eat from?
(a) Wooden bowls.
(b) Plates.
(c) China.
(d) Plastic plates.

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

3. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?
(a) It lowers intestinal health and harms lower nerve centers.
(b) It hurts the heart.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It hurts the liver.

4. How did the Nearings eat fresh from the garden?
(a) By eating with the seasons.
(b) By canning early in the season.
(c) By picking produce early and letting it ripen off the vine.
(d) By freezing food.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What was served nearly every day for lunch at the Nearings?

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

4. What did the Nearings later attach to their first stone building?

5. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?

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