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

2. What did the Nearings find that made a perfect base for their house in Vermont?
(a) A rock ledge over a waterfall.
(b) A cliff overlooking the water.
(c) A 26 foot split boulder.
(d) A level meadow.

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

4. What two farms did the Nearings buy when they got to Vermont?
(a) The Madingly family place.
(b) The Ellonen place and the Hoard place.
(c) The Vermont farm.
(d) The Sandusky farm and the Hodges place.

5. How much did the Nearings pay for the hand concrete mixer?
(a) $20.00.
(b) $150.00.
(c) They traded for it.
(d) $15.00.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of furniture did the Nearings use in their new stone home?

2. How much did the Nearings save by building with the stone system they used?

3. What was 7 miles from the farm in Vermont?

4. Whose building system did the Nearings follow when building their stone system?

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

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