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

2. The success of the super rich is that they create rules and values that then become the benchmark for living the ____________.
(a) Good life.
(b) Rich way.
(c) Rich life.
(d) True happiness.

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

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

5. ___________ writes in the second century BC that supreme happiness comes from contentment, according to the book.
(a) Cleopatra.
(b) Patanjali.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Plutarch.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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.

2. The poor man will feel content with the _________ from a rich man, though the rich man just wants to be rid of them.

3. _________ is the writer who describes the difference between inflicted poverty and voluntary poverty.

4. _________ is not the desired goal of the person who wants to be more spiritual or focused, according to the book.

5. The book proposes that the wealthy in the world are the ones who are able to establish the ___________ in the world.

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the essential aspects of life that are not for sale, according to this section of the book?

2. What does Clement of Alexandria have to say about a man who is truly rich?

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

4. What does James conclude to be the worst moral disease in society?

5. What does Mildred Binns Young's thesis state about the rich in this section of the book?

6. What is the significance of Fortune stopping the wheel, according to the writing of Boethius?

7. What does the first section have to say about man and what his obligation is in life?

8. What is the question that arises from the story of the man on the boat, according to Ruskin?

9. What is the societal status of St. Francis of Assisi before he begins his work as a monk?

10. What is the desired goal of having less if the goal is not to be destitute?

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