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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Francis learns the ballads of ________ from his mother who hails from that area, which has seen the birth of poverty.
(a) Provencal.
(b) Portugal.
(c) Paris.
(d) Madrid.

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

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

4. The desire to gain ________ and the fear of its loss creates ideal conditions for corruption and for cowardice.
(a) Status.
(b) Homes.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Power.

5. _________ is the writer who describes the difference between inflicted poverty and voluntary poverty.
(a) Dorothy Day.
(b) Ivan Illich.
(c) William James.
(d) John Milton.

6. Ivan Illich believes that the world is divided into _______ camps of thought about money and about materialism.
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

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

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

9. Gandhi realized that the more he gave away, the ________ it became, according to the book and to his own personal experience.
(a) Easier.
(b) Harder.
(c) Honorable.
(d) More plentiful.

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

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

12. Seneca dismayed that ______ was too easy to remove from the Earth as this might have been the beginning of the downfall of man.
(a) Gold.
(b) Silver.
(c) Diamond.
(d) Coal.

13. The rich man has no patience with the concept of personal __________ or a society in which man can be free, according to the book.
(a) Truth.
(b) Power.
(c) Achievement.
(d) Witnessing.

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

15. Today's economic structure is built to support the relatively few but super _________ in society.
(a) Poor.
(b) Rich.
(c) Effective.
(d) Networked.

Short Answer Questions

1. When we don't hold onto anything, we can _______ without fear of losing our affluence.

2. _________ writes of Fortune stopping the wheel, which is a metaphor that illustrates that wealth causes a man to stop growing.

3. George _______ writes that when man has what he wants, he is rich, but when he is able to do without what he wants, he is powerful.

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

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

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