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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ tells a story of a passenger on a ship that is going to sink, according to the book.
(a) Campbell.
(b) James.
(c) Ruskin.
(d) Barnfield.

2. Walt Whitman, a _________, believes that living with the animals is the ideal way to spend one's life, according to the book.
(a) Poet.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Novelist.
(d) Priest.

3. Schumacher defines __________ as knowing when enough is enough in life and in all of life's activities, according to the book.
(a) Movement.
(b) Moderation.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Temperantia.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Plutarch is happy that his only ________ is lost at sea because he will be able to live the life of a philosopher.

2. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.

3. Mumford says that the _______ of the Affluent Economy would not be Karl Marx but Henry Thoreau.

4. _________ finds that he is rich enough as long as he is able to leave things untouched, according to the book.

5. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.

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