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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the book that Michael Harrington contributed to? "The Other _________."
(a) Class.
(b) Possibility.
(c) War.
(d) America.

2. Poverty can become a reality when basic _____ have been met and the excess begins to litter one's life with meaninglessness.
(a) Accounts.
(b) Needs.
(c) Bills.
(d) Status requirements.

3. The rich man has no patience with the concept of personal __________ or a society in which man can be free, according to the book.
(a) Truth.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Power.
(d) Witnessing.

4. The book notes that we have forgotten that the ________ of poverty allows for the soul to be free from constraints.
(a) Experience.
(b) Truth.
(c) Weight.
(d) Virtue.

5. What is NOT listed as one of the world's new teachers in relation to materialism, according to the book?
(a) Terrorism.
(b) Genocide.
(c) Pollution.
(d) Suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. Every movement of humanity and _______ is one that leads toward simplicity, according to the book.

2. __________ tells a story of a passenger on a ship that is going to sink, according to the book.

3. What is in the belt of the man who refuses to take the belt off, though it might cause him to drown?

4. Ivan Illich believes that the world is divided into _______ camps of thought about money and about materialism.

5. The rich are actually _________ to their own wealth, having to do much in order to keep it around.

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