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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Socrates overheard someone else talking about how expensive ________ was at the time, according to the book.
(a) Madrid.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

3. A ________ proverb points out that the gods only laugh at man when men pray to them for wealth, according to the book.
(a) Japanese.
(b) Spanish.
(c) Chinese.
(d) Korean.

4. What is the name of the writer of the poem at the start of this chapter, according to the book?
(a) William James.
(b) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
(c) Richard Barnfield.
(d) John Milton.

5. ____________ writes that a few people know when they have enough and even fewer know how to use it.
(a) Ivan Illich.
(b) Joseph Campbell.
(c) William James.
(d) William Penn.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ writes of Fortune stopping the wheel, which is a metaphor that illustrates that wealth causes a man to stop growing.

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

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

4. Starting off this section is the poem "Lady ________" which talks more about the life of simplicity and what it has to offer."

5. What is in the belt of the man who refuses to take the belt off, though it might cause him to drown?

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