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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. 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) Religion.
(c) Promise.
(d) Labor.

2. Leisure is not the same thing as _________, according to the book, and it needs to be approached in a different way.
(a) Laziness.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Truth.
(d) Poverty.

3. _______ comments that artists regard their work as play and their play as work, as stated in the book.
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) David Riesman.
(c) Joseph Campbell.
(d) Plutarch.

4. Surya Prem says that when children are little, they should be taught to want __________, according to the book.
(a) Less.
(b) Nothing.
(c) More.
(d) Little.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The United States would be the leader of a _______ world if it were to give excess possessions to those in the world who are in need.

2. When a mother calls her daughter a little __________, she teaches her daughter to begin to admire herself.

3. Marcus Aurelius writes how __________ is a life-long experience, according to his writing in this section of 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. Children should be taught that ________ is for warmth, for modesty, and for protection, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the mother teaching her daughter when she tells her that she is a little princess?

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

4. What does the Ford Foundation report have to say about the idea of overpopulation?

5. How do the bees build their own homes, which is clearly different from the way that humans build their homes?

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

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

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

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

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

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