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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Saint _______ notes that ignoring one's wealth is much like removing it from one's life entirely, according to the book.
(a) Assisi.
(b) Roman.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Bernard.

2. Gandhi says that a follower of the Laws of ________ need to have faith and does not need to save for the future when he does.
(a) Promise.
(b) Labor.
(c) Love.
(d) Religion.

3. _________ writes that in quiet times, man is able to do whatever he loves to do and to do it solely for its own sake, according to the book.
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Whitman.

4. A life that is dedicated to ________ and does not take part in leisure is a joyless one, according to the book.
(a) Truth.
(b) Movement.
(c) Work.
(d) Study.

5. Nature's gifts can not be _________, according to the book, even though man is attempting to do so now.
(a) Enjoyed.
(b) Depleted.
(c) Bought.
(d) Destroyed.

6. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Depression.
(d) Mania.

7. The _______, who is in touch with life, can recognize its riches as well as its tragedies, according to the book.
(a) Poor.
(b) Spiritual seeker.
(c) President.
(d) Artist.

8. Leisure is not the same thing as _________, according to the book, and it needs to be approached in a different way.
(a) Idleness.
(b) Truth.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Laziness.

9. The three elements that Robert speaks of in his section can only be obtained through the ________ of unnecessary things, according to the book.
(a) Burning.
(b) Purchasing.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Sacrifice.

10. If the individual does not ______ what is being produced by those who are in power, then he will begin to take away the power of that company.
(a) Understand.
(b) Find.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Buy.

11. In what century did Minucius Felix live, according to the notes in this section of the book?
(a) Third.
(b) Fourth.
(c) Fifth.
(d) Second.

12. When a mother calls her daughter a little __________, she teaches her daughter to begin to admire herself.
(a) Peanut.
(b) Cat.
(c) Girl.
(d) Princess.

13. ________ advocates a luxury that has nothing to do with money, rather he sees it as food for the soul, according to the book.
(a) Cocteau.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Whitman.

14. Walt Whitman, a _________, believes that living with the animals is the ideal way to spend one's life, according to the book.
(a) Priest.
(b) Novelist.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Poet.

15. _________ says that poverty, that confirms with the laws of nature, is great wealth, according to the book.
(a) Seneca.
(b) Epicurus.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) Whitman.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ cautions against spoiling one's child by teaching him to expect more and more out of his life.

2. Marcus Aurelius speaks of a ______ life so busy that it has no leisure, according to the book, which is not pleasant to him.

3. The _________ issues a report in 1974 that suggests a zero population growth in the world.

4. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.

5. _______ comments that artists regard their work as play and their play as work, as stated in the book.

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