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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. How old, according to the Nearings, were they when they decided to move to Vermont?
(a) In their 20s.
(b) 68 and 69.
(c) Approaching fifty.
(d) 70.

2. Why did the Nearings chose Vermont and not Eastern Pennsylvania?
(a) Pennsylvania was too crowded.
(b) They hated the barns in Pennsylvania.
(c) They wanted a Frank Lloyd Wright house.
(d) The land costs were more reasonable.

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

4. How much heat does an old-fashioned fireplace allow to go up the chimney?
(a) Nine-tenths.
(b) 3/4ths.
(c) 10 percent.
(d) 99 percent.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when someone went out to work in the garden after lunch?

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

3. How was each work day divided up?

4. When the Nearings started their first garden in Vermont, what caused a quagmire and nearly ruined the garden?

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

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