Secret of the Ages Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Robert Collier (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Secret of the Ages Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

Robert Collier (author)
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 142 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Collier, true wealth is not in money but in what?
(a) Love.
(b) Ideas.
(c) Truth.
(d) Ambition.

2. What refers to survivors in the struggle for existence, the only desires that remain after careful reflection of all desires in one's life?
(a) Lasting Desires.
(b) Conscious Desires.
(c) Enduring Desires.
(d) Dominant Desires.

3. Who said "Imagination is more important than knowledge"?
(a) Sir Isaac Newton.
(b) John D. Rockefeller.
(c) Henry Ford.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. The author whose garden is described in Part V, Chapter 15 created what famous fictional detective?
(a) Sherlock Holmes.
(b) Nancy Drew.
(c) Richard Moore.
(d) Philip Marlowe.

5. The first rule of the Master Formula of Attainment is that "You may have anything you want, provided that you" what?
(a) Confidently expect to attain it.
(b) Want it hard enough.
(c) Are willing to pay the price of its attainment.
(d) Know exactly what you want.

6. Who was just a poor peasant girl and yet she was able to save the entire country of France?
(a) Joan of Arc.
(b) Marie Antoinette.
(c) Madame de Stael.
(d) Marguerite Duras.

7. What refers to the strongest and most persistent desires of an individual tend to attract to him (or her) that which is closely related to or correlated with those desires?
(a) Desire Strength.
(b) Desire Power.
(c) Desireability.
(d) The Big Desire.

8. What is the part of the mind that is all-wise, all-powerful, and also called the Higher Self within man?
(a) Conscious Mind.
(b) Subconscious Mind.
(c) Universal Mind.
(d) Superconscious Mind.

9. What refers to the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled?
(a) Randomness.
(b) Coincidence.
(c) Chance.
(d) Fate.

10. When did Robert Collier die?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1942.

11. The General Rule first asks the individual to develop a clear idea of his what?
(a) Definite Purpose.
(b) Great Desire.
(c) Future Life.
(d) Ultimate Goal.

12. The second phase of Mental Attitude toward Financial Success is to look at what?
(a) The effect of one's attitude on others.
(b) The effect of one's attitude on the world.
(c) The effect of the world on other people's attitudes.
(d) The effect of other people's attitudes on the world.

13. The fourth rule of the Master Formula of Attainment is that "You may have anything you want, provided that you" what?
(a) Keep your desire secret.
(b) Are willing to pay the price of its attainment.
(c) Persistently determine to obtain it.
(d) Know exactly what you want.

14. In what field of business did the author of Part V, Chapter 16 succeed?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Manufacturing.
(c) Gambling.
(d) Advertising.

15. According to Collier, training and education are not the roads to success but the ability to use what?
(a) The tools at one's disposal.
(b) Creative Imagination.
(c) Faith.
(d) The subconscious mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 4, Collier writes that in order to be truly successful, what must be created in the audience of the speaker in order to get them to feel with emotion?

2. According to the author of Part V, Chapter 16, the very heart of every American business is its what?

3. Collier's position states that the Desire Power works on what of the individual, influencing, guiding, directing him?

4. What is a strong will aroused by a strong desire?

5. According to Collier, the strong desire inside each individual is responsible for that person's what?

(see the answer keys)

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