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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. _________ finds one can worship more devoutly when he/she is poor and without material possessions, according to the book.
(a) Gandhi.
(b) Milton.
(c) Mother Teresa.
(d) The Pope.

2. John Burroughs says that he has been too busy enjoying the ______ to seek wealth, according to the book.
(a) Art.
(b) World.
(c) Promise of tomorrow.
(d) Museums.

3. ________ advocates a luxury that has nothing to do with money, rather he sees it as food for the soul, according to the book.
(a) Cocteau.
(b) Thoreau.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Seneca.

4. No ________ can surpass simplicity, according to St. Francois de Sales, according to this section of the book.
(a) Artifice.
(b) Word.
(c) Stone.
(d) Home.

5. A life that is dedicated to ________ and does not take part in leisure is a joyless one, according to the book.
(a) Study.
(b) Work.
(c) Movement.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. If the individual does not ______ what is being produced by those who are in power, then he will begin to take away the power of that company.

2. Bertrand ________ says that saving for the future takes the joy away from today, according to the book.

3. Marcus Aurelius speaks of a ______ life so busy that it has no leisure, according to the book, which is not pleasant to him.

4. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.

5. __________ can become a hindrance to the journey while also being a disturbance on the way to victory, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Seneca point out that man does not limit when it comes to the use of nature?

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

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

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

5. What happens when a person chooses not to buy items from those who manufacture them?

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

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

8. What does John Locke say that parents should not do with their children?

9. What does Russell say about the idea of saving for the future?

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

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