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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the job of St. Francis of Assisi's father when he is growing up in the world?
(a) Merchant.
(b) Bookkeeper.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Priest.

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

3. What does man think of when he has more free time in which to think about his life, according to the book?
(a) His dreams.
(b) God.
(c) His family.
(d) What else he wants.

4. Man must get rid of all he owns in order to tap into the ________ which lie within him, according to the book.
(a) Treasures.
(b) Truth.
(c) Powers.
(d) Possibilities.

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

6. An austere existence opens the path to growth in _________ and in love, according to the book's contents in this section.
(a) Practice.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Power.
(d) Selflessness.

7. Most people of today do not understand the ________ that awaits them if they choose not to be rich in their lives, according to the book.
(a) Clarity.
(b) Joy.
(c) Truth.
(d) Peace.

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

9. Solutions to the health problems of wealth can be found in the restoration of ________, according to the book.
(a) Stability.
(b) Values.
(c) Balance.
(d) The middle class.

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

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

12. True strength lies in the personal indifference and __________ found in untethered property, according to the book.
(a) Value.
(b) Constraint.
(c) Stability.
(d) Independence.

13. It is the ______ man who often bungles his chance to choose his own experience within the confines of wealth.
(a) True.
(b) Poor.
(c) Uneducated.
(d) Rich.

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

15. ________, to the rich, is as much an affliction as poverty may be to the poor, according to the book.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Peace.
(c) Denial.
(d) Luxury.

Short Answer Questions

1. A trip to ________ creates passion in Francis when he is confronted with true destitution, according to the book.

2. Louis Mercier speaks of the _________ of the rich, how their furniture can seem like stage pieces, according to the book.

3. When a man is able to discard __________, according to the book, he will be able to discover his own sense of contentment.

4. Gandhi realized that the more he gave away, the ________ it became, according to the book and to his own personal experience.

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

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