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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Man struggles with how to live his life and with what __________ will be most satisfying, according to the book.
(a) Number.
(b) Family.
(c) House.
(d) Lifestyle.

2. Socrates overheard someone else talking about how expensive ________ was at the time, according to the book.
(a) Athens.
(b) Madrid.
(c) Paris.
(d) Rome.

3. _________ writes of Fortune stopping the wheel, which is a metaphor that illustrates that wealth causes a man to stop growing.
(a) Plutarch.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Joseph Campbell.
(d) Boethius.

4. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.
(a) Mania.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Depression.
(d) Boredom.

5. _________ finds that he is rich enough as long as he is able to leave things untouched, according to the book.
(a) Campbell.
(b) Seneca.
(c) St. Francis.
(d) Thoreau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Schumacher defines __________ as knowing when enough is enough in life and in all of life's activities, according to the book.

2. Barnfield goes on to use ________ to show the ridiculous nature of man when he wants money in his life.

3. Walt Whitman, a _________, believes that living with the animals is the ideal way to spend one's life, according to the book.

4. Bruce Barton points out that it is the ________ of money that is the root of all evil, which makes sense in the book.

5. George _______ writes that when man has what he wants, he is rich, but when he is able to do without what he wants, he is powerful.

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