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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. Man annihilates more ________ than any other living thing, according to the book and according to recent findings.
(a) Blessings.
(b) Spirit.
(c) Hope.
(d) Natural resources.

2. Socrates overheard someone else talking about how expensive ________ was at the time, according to the book.
(a) Rome.
(b) Paris.
(c) Madrid.
(d) Athens.

3. The _________ issues a report in 1974 that suggests a zero population growth in the world.
(a) Census.
(b) Ford Foundation.
(c) US Department of Health.
(d) US military.

4. 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.

5. It is human _________, according to the book, to save for an uncertain future which starts off this section of the book.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Society.
(c) Nature.
(d) Stupidity.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ 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.

2. __________, according to the book, says that man is at war with nature, which is causing many problems.

3. The method of transportation for Saint _________ is simply a means to visit the poor and to minister to them.

4. Whitman says that the _______ understands that the young man who sacrificed and lost his life for a worthy purpose led a life far superior to one with money.

5. In what century did Minucius Felix live, according to the notes in this section of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does this section say that children are taught at a young age, which might explain modern society?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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