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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. When a mother calls her daughter a little __________, she teaches her daughter to begin to admire herself.
(a) Peanut.
(b) Girl.
(c) Cat.
(d) Princess.

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

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

4. 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) Religion.
(b) Love.
(c) Labor.
(d) Promise.

5. ________ does not limit how much is built on the lands or how many fish are taken from the waters, according to the book.
(a) Government.
(b) Man.
(c) God.
(d) Woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Being a _________ means that one makes the decision to live a simple life that is devoid of distractions, according to the book.

2. Man struggles with how to live his life and with what __________ will be most satisfying, according to the book.

3. __________ can become a hindrance to the journey while also being a disturbance on the way to victory, according to the book.

4. Living the ______ life, free of the burdens of wealth and of possessions is considered to be ideal, according to the book.

5. ________ writes that the West is over-consuming the resources of the world and sinking itself into disaster, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Sir Francis Bacon have to say about the baggage that one carries in their life?

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

10. What has been warped by the luxury of the United States as it defines this as being normal?

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