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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Louis Mercier speaks of the _________ of the rich, how their furniture can seem like stage pieces, according to the book.
(a) Construct.
(b) Truth.
(c) Mask.
(d) Facade.

2. _______ will need to be learned from real life insurgencies that have taken place within the world, according to the book.
(a) Anger.
(b) Lessons.
(c) Fear.
(d) Destruction.

3. 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.
(a) Truthseeker.
(b) Saylor.
(c) Taylor.
(d) Smith.

4. Society looks down upon the poor, thinking that they lack ________ which is what has led them to their position in society.
(a) Ambition.
(b) Education.
(c) Money.
(d) Intelligence.

5. When we don't hold onto anything, we can _______ without fear of losing our affluence.
(a) Be powerful.
(b) Be scared.
(c) Speak our mind.
(d) Run away.

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

7. The woman represents __________ because men love women, according to the book.
(a) Power.
(b) Money.
(c) Pain.
(d) Arguments.

8. The book asks whether the poor man or the rich man feels more __________ when they have the transaction of items.
(a) Satiety.
(b) Peace.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Joy.

9. _________ is something that lies within each man, and in the traditional wisdom of mankind, according to the book.
(a) Contentment.
(b) Resolution.
(c) Truth.
(d) Virtue.

10. Mildred Binns Young wrote a piece in 1939 that was called, "Toward a ___________ Poverty," according to the book.
(a) Functional.
(b) Realistic.
(c) Painful.
(d) Painless.

11. The ________ can subsist within itself, providing enough food and clothing for the members within, according to the book.
(a) School.
(b) City.
(c) Family.
(d) Community.

12. The poor man will feel content with the _________ from a rich man, though the rich man just wants to be rid of them.
(a) Rotten food.
(b) Discarded clothes.
(c) Gold pieces.
(d) Cans of jelly.

13. While poverty is not the end goal of the ________ community, it is a safe harbor temporarily where talents can be nurtured.
(a) Rich.
(b) Creative.
(c) Poor.
(d) Educational.

14. __________ tells a story of a passenger on a ship that is going to sink, according to the book.
(a) James.
(b) Ruskin.
(c) Barnfield.
(d) Campbell.

15. Only with a limitation of one's possessions can one realize their true _________ in the world, according to the book.
(a) Purpose.
(b) Worth.
(c) Power.
(d) Connection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Starting off this section is the poem "Lady ________" which talks more about the life of simplicity and what it has to offer."

2. Francis contemplates ___________ to a noble and wealthy woman, but reality strikes him later of this choice.

3. Bruce Barton points out that it is the ________ of money that is the root of all evil, which makes sense in the book.

4. The success of the super rich is that they create rules and values that then become the benchmark for living the ____________.

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.

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