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

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

3. Saint Bernard says that he does not notice the _________ of his method of getting around, according to the book.
(a) Effectiveness.
(b) Magnificence.
(c) Truth.
(d) Power.

4. A person should not allow possessions to have any __________ in life, as this will cause the baggage to be a bother.
(a) Value.
(b) Significance.
(c) Truth.
(d) Weight.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Lewis Mumford says that a person through _______ and rejection can free himself from the powerful, according to the book.

2. The power of the _______ is unlimited and is the tool that changes culture, according to the book.

3. 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.

4. To Honore de Balzac, the artist is the one who has always kept the true _______ between riches and poverty, according to the book.

5. Whitman says that the _______ understands that the young man who sacrificed and lost his life for a worthy purpose led a life far superior to one with money.

Short Essay Questions

1. What should happen once wealth and possessions have been renounced, according to this section?

2. What does Regamey say the destitute in a society is a sign for?

3. What does this section say is a part of human nature, and Gandhi says one must have faith in the future?

4. What has the artist always been able to do, according to Honore de Balzac?

5. What does Huxley have to say about the West and what it is doing to the world as it grows?

6. What is a time that is found to be boring, unlike the idea of leisure, as described in this section?

7. What does Young say would happen if America gave away possessions they did not need to the rest of the world?

8. What does Robert Graves point out about the ideas of money and poverty and poetry?

9. What does Saint Bernard have to say about the idea of having many possessions?

10. Though life is a struggle, what is the advice that Burroughs gives to the reader in this section?

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