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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When we don't hold onto anything, we can _______ without fear of losing our affluence.
(a) Run away.
(b) Be powerful.
(c) Speak our mind.
(d) Be scared.

2. Starting off this section is the poem "Lady ________" which talks more about the life of simplicity and what it has to offer."
(a) Pecunia.
(b) Power.
(c) Truth.
(d) Poverty.

3. The poor man is made ________ by the rich man's gift, though the rich man is ashamed of the thing that he has given.
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Joyful.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Honorable.

4. Thoreau says that ________ men are the most destitute because they do not know how to use the resources they have, according to the book.
(a) Confused.
(b) Wealthy.
(c) Poor.
(d) Godless.

5. A trip to ________ creates passion in Francis when he is confronted with true destitution, according to the book.
(a) Paris.
(b) Hungary.
(c) Rome.
(d) Lipswitch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Only with a limitation of one's possessions can one realize their true _________ in the world, according to the book.

2. The first step to a more satisfying life is to enter into Voluntary __________, according to the book.

3. __________ tells a story of a passenger on a ship that is going to sink, according to the book.

4. Bruce Barton points out that it is the ________ of money that is the root of all evil, which makes sense in the book.

5. Jeremy _______ writes that the status we call poverty is actually supposed to be called nature, according to the book and to the way he thinks.

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