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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________ writes that the West is over-consuming the resources of the world and sinking itself into disaster, according to the book.
(a) Whitman.
(b) Washington.
(c) Hitler.
(d) Huxley.

2. _________ allows one quiet time and time in which he can learn about himself, according to the book.
(a) Leisure.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Work.

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

4. __________ should be left behind, according to the book, once wealth and possessions have been renounced by a person.
(a) Children.
(b) Older people.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

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

6. Emerson points out that children often miss out on the real __________ of the sun and the moon and the water, according to the book.
(a) Realities.
(b) Truths.
(c) Treasures.
(d) Powers.

7. Man seems to be inefficient in _________ himself, according to the books' contents, and according to the wise writers.
(a) Enjoying.
(b) Proving.
(c) Limiting.
(d) Believing.

8. The method of transportation for Saint _________ is simply a means to visit the poor and to minister to them.
(a) Teresa.
(b) Bernard.
(c) Thomas.
(d) Assisi.

9. ________ speaks to the reader of the inherent fear of worry of losing the riches one has, according to the book.
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Morton.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Milton.

10. Mumford says that the _______ of the Affluent Economy would not be Karl Marx but Henry Thoreau.
(a) Supporter.
(b) President.
(c) Representative.
(d) Arch-enemy.

11. Voluntary Poverty is a cure for out-sized _____ and mankind's suffering, according to the ending of the book.
(a) Egos.
(b) Homes.
(c) Ideals.
(d) Countries.

12. ________ cautions against building one's house beyond reasonable expense and splendor, according to the book.
(a) Cicero.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Plutarch.
(d) James.

13. Man annihilates more ________ than any other living thing, according to the book and according to recent findings.
(a) Hope.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Blessings.
(d) Natural resources.

14. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.
(a) Longing.
(b) Fear.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

15. Being a _________ means that one makes the decision to live a simple life that is devoid of distractions, according to the book.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Doctor.
(c) Banker.
(d) Writer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Living the ______ life, free of the burdens of wealth and of possessions is considered to be ideal, according to the book.

2. Saint _______ notes that ignoring one's wealth is much like removing it from one's life entirely, according to the book.

3. A person should not allow possessions to have any __________ in life, as this will cause the baggage to be a bother.

4. Within the country of America, according to the book, the idea of leisure is seen as an interruption of ___________.

5. Thoreau sees the world as being ruined by __________, according to his piece of writing in this section of the book.

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