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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. __________ should be left behind, according to the book, once wealth and possessions have been renounced by a person.
(a) Older people.
(b) Everything.
(c) Children.
(d) Nothing.

2. _________ finds that he is rich enough as long as he is able to leave things untouched, according to the book.
(a) St. Francis.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Campbell.
(d) Seneca.

3. Gandhi has experienced both ________ and poverty, but chooses poverty as this seems to help his work.
(a) Destitution.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Sainthood.
(d) Wealth.

4. The civilized world lacks philosophers and _______ who can warn against the destructiveness of materialism.
(a) Therapists.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Priests.
(d) Singers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The poor man is made ________ by the rich man's gift, though the rich man is ashamed of the thing that he has given.

4. Bertrand ________ says that saving for the future takes the joy away from today, according to the book.

5. According to Epicurus, being too _______ has its downside, illustrating the idea that moderation is a lesson to be learned in life, according to the book.

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