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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An _______ is a device that is used to purify things, according to the beginning of this section of the book.
(a) Atrophy.
(b) Emberla.
(c) Enema.
(d) Alembic.

2. Artists and the creative community are said to be the only ones who enjoy an existence that is truly ________, according to the book.
(a) Rich.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Happy.
(d) Pleasant.

3. Bertrand ________ says that saving for the future takes the joy away from today, according to the book.
(a) Milton.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Russell.

4. To Honore de Balzac, the artist is the one who has always kept the true _______ between riches and poverty, according to the book.
(a) Balance.
(b) Volume.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Space.

5. ________ is seen as a non-productive luxury that stands in the way of one's true worth in the world, according to the book.
(a) Honor.
(b) Ego.
(c) Peace.
(d) Value.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. _________ is not helpful unless it teaches a person to live the simple life, according to the writing of Seneca in this part of the book.

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

4. No ________ that is bought, according to Seneca, is respectable, according to this section of the book.

5. The _______, who is in touch with life, can recognize its riches as well as its tragedies, according to the book.

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