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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Seneca proclaims that the _______ provided by nature is adequately abundant, even though most people do not realize it or recognize it.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Enough.
(c) Luxuries.
(d) Products.

2. _________ in one's life is really what makes one rich, according to the book and according to one of the sections.
(a) Truth.
(b) Money.
(c) Contentment.
(d) Power.

3. Bruce Barton points out that it is the ________ of money that is the root of all evil, which makes sense in the book.
(a) Amount.
(b) Pain.
(c) Truth.
(d) Love.

4. _________ notes that man does not ask the value of an item, but rather what it costs, according to the book.
(a) Ruskin.
(b) Campbell.
(c) Barnfield.
(d) Seneca.

5. _________ writes of Fortune stopping the wheel, which is a metaphor that illustrates that wealth causes a man to stop growing.
(a) Boethius.
(b) Plutarch.
(c) Seneca.
(d) Joseph Campbell.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ writes that it can take a man a lifetime to learn how to live, according to the writing in this section.

2. In the book of Timothy, the Bible says that the love of ____ is the root of all evil, according to the book.

3. Robert ______ writes in 1923 that there are three elements in a beautiful life, according to the book.

4. Whitman is against living with animals because they are not demented with the _________ of owning things, according to the book.

5. Plutarch is happy that his only ________ is lost at sea because he will be able to live the life of a philosopher.

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