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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. ___________ points out that children who are raised in a sea of dolls and toys are not taught to love nature, according to the book.
(a) Shakespeare.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Prem.
(d) Whitman.

2. Gandhi has experienced both ________ and poverty, but chooses poverty as this seems to help his work.
(a) Destitution.
(b) Sainthood.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Wealth.

3. 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.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Luxurious.
(c) Smaller.
(d) Rich.

4. Each cell in a _______ is built at an angle which provides the most strength but requires the least amount of materials to hold it up.
(a) Beehive.
(b) Pod.
(c) Home.
(d) Leaf.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. _______ proclaims that living the life of a philosopher is more than just loving wisdom and starting a school.

2. No ________ that is bought, according to Seneca, is respectable, according to this section of the book.

3. Man seems to be inefficient in _________ himself, according to the books' contents, and according to the wise writers.

4. Thoreau sees the world as being ruined by __________, according to his piece of writing in this section of the book.

5. _________ is not helpful unless it teaches a person to live the simple life, according to the writing of Seneca in this part of the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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