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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 is the definition of disease, according to the Nearings?
(a) Sickness.
(b) The absence of health.
(c) Illness.
(d) Something that causes death.

2. How did the Nearings describe the stone wall when it was finished?
(a) Like the green meadow, dotted with wildflowers.
(b) Like a beautiful sunset.
(c) Like a picture perfect post card.
(d) Like the unveiling of an art work.

3. What does healthy soil teem with?
(a) Wood.
(b) Organic life.
(c) Food.
(d) A terrible stench.

4. 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 brought them home from their travels abroad.
(d) They bought them from a gravel company.

5. What did the Nearings store potatoes, carrots, beets turnips, celery root and apples?
(a) In the refrigerator.
(b) In generous layers of leaves in the cellar.
(c) In the garden, covered.
(d) In the greenhouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How did the Nearlings choke out the weeds around berry plants in Vermont?

3. What level was the kitchen garden in Vermont?

4. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?

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

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