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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Leisure is not the same thing as _________, according to the book, and it needs to be approached in a different way.
(a) Laziness.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Poverty.

2. Schumacher defines __________ as knowing when enough is enough in life and in all of life's activities, according to the book.
(a) Movement.
(b) Contentment.
(c) Temperantia.
(d) Moderation.

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

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

5. When the family is __________ in society and not connected to others, then it can be truly happy, according to the book.
(a) Enmeshed.
(b) Convivial.
(c) Communal.
(d) Independent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Man's obligation is to live under ________in all of his actions, according to this part of the book.

2. ________ writes that it can take a man a lifetime to learn how to live, according to the writing in this section.

3. A ________ education is one that gives man his freedom, the freedom to think and to create, according to the book.

4. When a mother calls her daughter a little __________, she teaches her daughter to begin to admire herself.

5. Emerson points out that children often miss out on the real __________ of the sun and the moon and the water, according to the book.

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