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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 prayer in Mannes' piece of writing gives thanks to the god of plenty, the god of profit, and the goddess of __________.
(a) Convenience.
(b) Fashion.
(c) Understandng.
(d) Truth.

2. _________ cautions against spoiling one's child by teaching him to expect more and more out of his life.
(a) John Locke.
(b) Robert Graves.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) John Milton.

3. 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) Powers.
(b) Treasures.
(c) Realities.
(d) Truths.

4. The _________ issues a report in 1974 that suggests a zero population growth in the world.
(a) Ford Foundation.
(b) US military.
(c) Census.
(d) US Department of Health.

5. 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) Love.
(b) Promise.
(c) Labor.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Mumford says that the _______ of the Affluent Economy would not be Karl Marx but Henry Thoreau.

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

4. ________ does not limit how much is built on the lands or how many fish are taken from the waters, according to the book.

5. Nature has a major role in what man is given to _______ and to live a happy life, even when he doesn't realize it, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What should education teach children, according to the ideas in the book?

4. What does this section say that children are taught at a young age, which might explain modern society?

5. What is the one gift that is provided by a transition to Voluntary Poverty, according to VandenBroeck?

6. How does Whitman describe the ideal life, according to his section of the book?

7. What do artists and the creative community seem to understand that others do not?

8. What are the three elements that Robert Henri says the most beautiful life contains?

9. What does this section define the idea of the simple life, according to the book?

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

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