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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. _______ 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.

2. Mankind created a system that is destined to fail since it cannot continue to __________ itself, according to the book.
(a) Outperform.
(b) Understand.
(c) Populate.
(d) Provide for.

3. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.
(a) Mania.
(b) Distraction.
(c) Depression.
(d) Boredom.

4. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.
(a) Anger.
(b) Longing.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Fear.

5. The need to develop __________ is essential in providing energy for the world's population, according to the book.
(a) Alternative energies.
(b) New settlements.
(c) Peace treaties.
(d) Peace plans.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Leisure is not the same thing as _________, according to the book, and it needs to be approached in a different way.

3. ___________ points out that children who are raised in a sea of dolls and toys are not taught to love nature, according to the book.

4. Within the country of America, according to the book, the idea of leisure is seen as an interruption of ___________.

5. Walt Whitman, a _________, believes that living with the animals is the ideal way to spend one's life, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Gandhi discover as he has experienced both wealth and poverty?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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