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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The success of the super rich is that they create rules and values that then become the benchmark for living the ____________.
(a) True happiness.
(b) Rich life.
(c) Good life.
(d) Rich way.

2. ________ writes that it can take a man a lifetime to learn how to live, according to the writing in this section.
(a) Whitman.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Smith.
(d) Thoreau.

3. The _______, who is in touch with life, can recognize its riches as well as its tragedies, according to the book.
(a) Poor.
(b) Spiritual seeker.
(c) President.
(d) Artist.

4. 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) Poor.
(b) Confused.
(c) Wealthy.
(d) Godless.

5. _________ allows one quiet time and time in which he can learn about himself, according to the book.
(a) Idleness.
(b) Sleep.
(c) Leisure.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. The method of transportation for Saint _________ is simply a means to visit the poor and to minister to them.

2. Jeremy _______ writes that the status we call poverty is actually supposed to be called nature, according to the book and to the way he thinks.

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

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

5. Health and _________ are just two of the many aspects of life that are not for sale.

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