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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. A trip to ________ creates passion in Francis when he is confronted with true destitution, according to the book.
(a) Hungary.
(b) Paris.
(c) Rome.
(d) Lipswitch.

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

5. What is NOT listed as one of the world's new teachers in relation to materialism, according to the book?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Terrorism.
(c) Genocide.
(d) Pollution.

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

7. Man's obligation is to live under ________in all of his actions, according to this part of the book.
(a) Money.
(b) Truth.
(c) Purpose.
(d) God.

8. Health and _________ are just two of the many aspects of life that are not for sale.
(a) Truth.
(b) Success.
(c) Money.
(d) Freedom.

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

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

11. St. Teresa of Avila speaks of the _______ of the vow of poverty, the foundation of the Order which she established.
(a) Power.
(b) Worry.
(c) Holiness.
(d) Truth.

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

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

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

15. After meeting with the _________, Francis decides to give up all that he owns and he lives a life of poverty, according to the book.
(a) Bishop.
(b) Priest.
(c) Woman.
(d) Pope.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the book that Michael Harrington contributed to? "The Other _________."

3. The only true solution for a return to the truly ______ life is to remove oneself from the false set of values, according to the book.

4. Mildred Binns Young wrote a piece in 1939 that was called, "Toward a ___________ Poverty," according to the book.

5. ____________ writes that a few people know when they have enough and even fewer know how to use it.

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