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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. Which perspective is the notion of "keeping up with the neighbors" part of?
(a) Emotional and psychological.
(b) Personal responsibility and transformation.
(c) Step 2.
(d) Inflation.

2. What do most people claim to value more than money?
(a) Their lives.
(b) Their jobs.
(c) Their talents.
(d) Their health.

3. What is an important aspect of the second half of Step 2?
(a) Saving life energy.
(b) Not feeling shame or blame.
(c) Tracking net worth.
(d) Saving as much money as possible.

4. In Question 1, for each expense, participants must ask if they received fulfillment, satisfaction, and value in proportion to what?
(a) Spirituality.
(b) Life energy spent.
(c) Income.
(d) Dollar value.

5. Question 3 asks participants to consider what it would be like to do what?
(a) Conserve life energy.
(b) Eliminate debt.
(c) Retire.
(d) Find a life mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the amount spent divided by real hourly wage equal?

2. What must a person do to become financially independent?

3. Why should people ask themselves how they can help others to avoid pain they have experienced?

4. What is budgeting similar to?

5. What is the second half of Step 2?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are some of the not-so-obvious expenses related to a person's work?

2. Why is it beneficial to be specific with categories, rather than more general?

3. How do the authors compare budgeting with dieting?

4. How should program participants use the charts at the end of Chapter 3?

5. What are people's dreams good clues to?

6. How does our consumption hurt the environment?

7. What perspective of money do the authors endorse? Why?

8. What is the first part of Step 1? What is its purpose?

9. What is the second part of Step 1? What attitude should participants try to maintain when they see their result?

10. What should program participants do, rather than create a budget?

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