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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. 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.

2. What direction do the rows in a garden need to be planted to assure maximum sun to the roots?
(a) East and West.
(b) North and South.
(c) Not in rows, but in pods.
(d) At right angles.

3. Where did one enter the Nearing home in Vermont?
(a) Through the cellar.
(b) Through a side door from the garage.
(c) Through the door in the kitchen.
(d) Through a double front door.

4. Whose ideas of design did the Nearings follow when building their stone homes?
(a) Frank Lloyd Wright.
(b) Robert Louis Stevenson.
(c) Louis Sullivan.
(d) Frank Ghery.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What, according to the Nearings, do white flour products do to a person's health?

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

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

5. What size were the Nearing's compost piles?

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