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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. It is the ______ man who often bungles his chance to choose his own experience within the confines of wealth.
(a) Rich.
(b) Uneducated.
(c) Poor.
(d) True.

2. ___________ takes away the responsibility of providing for the family and it gives to man the idea leisure time as well, according to the book.
(a) Peace.
(b) Mass production.
(c) The stock market.
(d) Church.

3. The poor man will feel content with the _________ from a rich man, though the rich man just wants to be rid of them.
(a) Discarded clothes.
(b) Gold pieces.
(c) Rotten food.
(d) Cans of jelly.

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

5. Much has been given to those from whom much will be required, thus men are neither equally gifted or __________, according to the book.
(a) Pained.
(b) Burdened.
(c) Impoverished.
(d) Glorified.

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

7. The book notes that we have forgotten that the ________ of poverty allows for the soul to be free from constraints.
(a) Truth.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Weight.
(d) Experience.

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

9. Mildred Binns Young wrote a piece in 1939 that was called, "Toward a ___________ Poverty," according to the book.
(a) Painful.
(b) Painless.
(c) Realistic.
(d) Functional.

10. Only with a limitation of one's possessions can one realize their true _________ in the world, according to the book.
(a) Connection.
(b) Power.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Worth.

11. Gandhi calls the process of getting rid of what he owned a removal of a _________ from his shoulders, according to the book.
(a) Monkey.
(b) Burden.
(c) Bag.
(d) Rope.

12. The success of the super rich is that they create rules and values that then become the benchmark for living the ____________.
(a) Good life.
(b) True happiness.
(c) Rich life.
(d) Rich way.

13. The only true solution for a return to the truly ______ life is to remove oneself from the false set of values, according to the book.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Rich.
(c) Happy.
(d) Content.

14. Horace Gregory refers to money as the invisible ________ against the human spirit, according to the book.
(a) Enemy.
(b) Piece.
(c) Spirit.
(d) Desire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the writer of the poem at the start of this chapter, according to the book?

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

3. ________ may step in to define the values of society if man does not try to do this on his own.

4. It is in the deeper _______ that man must explore in order to find his true worth, according to the book.

5. ________, to the rich, is as much an affliction as poverty may be to the poor, according to the book.

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