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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The values that the rich have created have helped to steal the virtuous aspirations of the __________, according to the book.
(a) Children.
(b) Culture.
(c) Schools.
(d) Museums.

2. Seneca proclaims that the _______ provided by nature is adequately abundant, even though most people do not realize it or recognize it.
(a) Products.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Enough.
(d) Luxuries.

3. The woman represents __________ because men love women, according to the book.
(a) Arguments.
(b) Power.
(c) Money.
(d) Pain.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Most people of today do not understand the ________ that awaits them if they choose not to be rich in their lives, according to the book.

2. The celebrations of the rich are like __________, according to Mercier when he speaks in this section of the book.

3. What is in the belt of the man who refuses to take the belt off, though it might cause him to drown?

4. True strength lies in the personal indifference and __________ found in untethered property, according to the book.

5. _________ in one's life is really what makes one rich, according to the book and according to one of the sections.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the power that is said to be intrinsic in the world able to do within society?

2. What happens when Francis is about to marry a wealthy woman?

3. What does Dorothy Day explain the difference between when she contributes to the book?

4. How can the hunger for the mostly empty goals in society and in life be thwarted, according to the book?

5. Illich says that the world is divided into two different camps, what are these two camps?

6. What does mass production do to the family, according to the section by Jean Rousseau?

7. What does James say that society does when it sees a person who is poor and downtrodden?

8. What is the idea or thing that metes out everything that man needs in order to be happy in life, according to Taylor?

9. What is poverty if it is not the end goal of the creative community, according to Michael Harrington?

10. Why is it difficult to reject the easy life and the comfort of materialism?

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