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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. William James believes that the fear of _________ is the worst moral disease that society has encountered.
(a) Riches.
(b) Disease.
(c) Death.
(d) Poverty.

2. No man is without _______, whether he is gainfully employed or not, according to the book.
(a) Work.
(b) Money.
(c) Love.
(d) Patience.

3. Jean _________ speaks of the happiness of the family in his writings, according to the book in the beginning of this section.
(a) Smith.
(b) Juliard.
(c) Rousseau.
(d) Whitman.

4. Poverty can become a reality when basic _____ have been met and the excess begins to litter one's life with meaninglessness.
(a) Bills.
(b) Accounts.
(c) Status requirements.
(d) Needs.

5. When a man is able to discard __________, according to the book, he will be able to discover his own sense of contentment.
(a) Status.
(b) Truth.
(c) Avarice.
(d) Power.

6. Bruce Barton points out that it is the ________ of money that is the root of all evil, which makes sense in the book.
(a) Truth.
(b) Amount.
(c) Pain.
(d) Love.

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

8. _________ is not the desired goal of the person who wants to be more spiritual or focused, according to the book.
(a) Power.
(b) Riches.
(c) Destitution.
(d) Prominence.

9. 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) Discarded clothes.
(c) Cans of jelly.
(d) Rotten food.

10. The first step to a more satisfying life is to enter into Voluntary __________, according to the book.
(a) Realism.
(b) Riches.
(c) Optimism.
(d) Poverty.

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

12. William _______ is paraphrased when it is said that man is rich in virtues when he wants to use what he has in a holy manner.
(a) Whitman.
(b) Law.
(c) Manner.
(d) Truth.

13. The poor man is made ________ by the rich man's gift, though the rich man is ashamed of the thing that he has given.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Joyful.
(d) Honorable.

14. The success of the super rich is that they create rules and values that then become the benchmark for living the ____________.
(a) Rich life.
(b) Rich way.
(c) Good life.
(d) True happiness.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. An austere existence opens the path to growth in _________ and in love, according to the book's contents in this section.

2. The values that the rich have created have helped to steal the virtuous aspirations of the __________, according to the book.

3. Gandhi calls the process of getting rid of what he owned a removal of a _________ from his shoulders, according to the book.

4. _________ is something that lies within each man, and in the traditional wisdom of mankind, according to the book.

5. 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.

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