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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. _______ will need to be learned from real life insurgencies that have taken place within the world, according to the book.
(a) Fear.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Anger.
(d) Destruction.

2. Society looks down upon the poor, thinking that they lack ________ which is what has led them to their position in society.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Money.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Education.

3. Thoreau says that ________ men are the most destitute because they do not know how to use the resources they have, according to the book.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Godless.
(c) Confused.
(d) Poor.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The civilized world lacks philosophers and _______ who can warn against the destructiveness of materialism.

2. Horace Gregory refers to money as the invisible ________ against the human spirit, according to the book.

3. 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.

4. _________ is something that lies within each man, and in the traditional wisdom of mankind, according to the book.

5. __________, according to the book, says that man is at war with nature, which is causing many problems.

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