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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ivan Illich believes that the world is divided into _______ camps of thought about money and about materialism.
(a) Two.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

2. Too often, the beauty and the size of one's _______ becomes more important than its cost.
(a) Book study.
(b) Car.
(c) Office.
(d) Home.

3. There seems to be a hunger for __________, but this hunger can be sated when alternative ideas are presented i society.
(a) True riches.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Empty goals.
(d) Success.

4. The values that the rich have created have helped to steal the virtuous aspirations of the __________, according to the book.
(a) Culture.
(b) Museums.
(c) Schools.
(d) Children.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. When we don't hold onto anything, we can _______ without fear of losing our affluence.

2. _________ in one's life is really what makes one rich, according to the book and according to one of the sections.

3. Most people of today do not understand the ________ that awaits them if they choose not to be rich in their lives, according to the book.

4. Mildred Binns Young wrote a piece in 1939 that was called, "Toward a ___________ Poverty," according to the book.

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

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