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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Good Life, Chapters Seven and Eight.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did the Nearings like stone buildings?
(a) They were like a fortress and kept visitors away.
(b) They were cheaper to maintain, would not burn and were cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter.
(c) They were easy to build with.
(d) They were not as pretty as wood, but more solid.

2. At the musical events on Sunday morning, what was to be avoided?
(a) Sermons.
(b) The use of religious music.
(c) Rock and roll music.
(d) Electric music.

3. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?
(a) 8 x 8 feet square.
(b) 10 x 16 feet rectangle.
(c) 5 x 5 feet square and deep.
(d) 10 x 10 feet square.

4. What, according to the Nearings, is important about keeping an axe?
(a) Let Helen keep it.
(b) Keep it inside the house.
(c) Keep it in the garden so it can be found and used.
(d) Keeping it sharp.

5. What did the Nearings do with the spring they found in the back of the cellar-hole?
(a) They ran the water to the garden.
(b) They plugged it up.
(c) They ran the water to the outhouse.
(d) They concreted the sides and ran a pipe up to the kitchen sink.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Nearings use to cook in?

2. How, according to the Nearings, can you build whole, living, balanced soil?

3. What did Harold Field feel about working with the Nearings to make sugar?

4. What did the Nearings eat from?

5. How was the Sunday morning musical events divided?

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