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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ does not limit how much is built on the lands or how many fish are taken from the waters, according to the book.

2. Using _______, Marya Mannes writes a piece that addresses the avarice and the dysfunction of America in the book.

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

4. No ________ can surpass simplicity, according to St. Francois de Sales, according to this section of the book.

5. Emerson points out that children often miss out on the real __________ of the sun and the moon and the water, according to the book.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Though life is a struggle, what is the advice that Burroughs gives to the reader in this section?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tolstoy says that poverty can be a source of happiness when a person chooses it.

Part 1: Do you think that inflicted poverty brings happiness?

Part 2: How do you think a person could be happy when they don't have any money?

Part 3: Do you think you could be happy without any money or material things?

Essay Topic 2

Much about the rich is liked to be pageantry and stage settings, rather than a life of value.

Part 1: How do you think possessions are like props in one's life?

Part 2: Why do you think the rich sometimes buy things they don't need?

Part 3: Do you think you own a lot of things that you don't need? Why do you have them?

Essay Topic 3

At the same time, there is a message that the rich are also slaves to their own wealth.

Part 1: How can a rich person be a slave to their own wealth?

Part 2: Do you think it's a bad thing to be a slave to one's own wealth and prosperity?

Part 3: Why do you think the rich might suffer in their lives, even though they might not want for anything?

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