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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. A child just has to _______ in order to get what he wants, according to the way that we raise children.
(a) Hold out their hand.
(b) Cry.
(c) Stand up.
(d) Sigh.

2. Marcus Aurelius speaks of a ______ life so busy that it has no leisure, according to the book, which is not pleasant to him.
(a) Satisfactory.
(b) Dismal.
(c) Boring.
(d) Full.

3. __________ should be left behind, according to the book, once wealth and possessions have been renounced by a person.
(a) Older people.
(b) Everything.
(c) Children.
(d) Nothing.

4. Lewis Mumford says that a person through _______ and rejection can free himself from the powerful, according to the book.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Truth.
(c) Education.
(d) Non-conformity.

5. To Honore de Balzac, the artist is the one who has always kept the true _______ between riches and poverty, according to the book.
(a) Balance.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Space.
(d) Volume.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The _________ has cultivated a culture that has begun to confuse comfort with luxury, according to this section of the book.

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

4. John Burroughs says that he has been too busy enjoying the ______ to seek wealth, 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 are the three elements that Robert Henri says the most beautiful life contains?

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

3. What does Seneca say it may take a man a lifetime to learn, according to the book?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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