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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mumford says that the _______ of the Affluent Economy would not be Karl Marx but Henry Thoreau.
(a) Supporter.
(b) Representative.
(c) President.
(d) Arch-enemy.

2. Gandhi says that a follower of the Laws of ________ need to have faith and does not need to save for the future when he does.
(a) Promise.
(b) Labor.
(c) Love.
(d) Religion.

3. The need to develop __________ is essential in providing energy for the world's population, according to the book.
(a) Peace treaties.
(b) New settlements.
(c) Alternative energies.
(d) Peace plans.

4. Lewis Mumford says that a person through _______ and rejection can free himself from the powerful, according to the book.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Non-conformity.
(c) Truth.
(d) Education.

5. Leisure is not the same thing as _________, according to the book, and it needs to be approached in a different way.
(a) Truth.
(b) Idleness.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Poverty.

6. Walt Whitman, a _________, believes that living with the animals is the ideal way to spend one's life, according to the book.
(a) Novelist.
(b) Priest.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Poet.

7. Mankind created a system that is destined to fail since it cannot continue to __________ itself, according to the book.
(a) Outperform.
(b) Provide for.
(c) Populate.
(d) Understand.

8. _________ finds one can worship more devoutly when he/she is poor and without material possessions, according to the book.
(a) Milton.
(b) Mother Teresa.
(c) Gandhi.
(d) The Pope.

9. ___________ points out that children who are raised in a sea of dolls and toys are not taught to love nature, according to the book.
(a) Emerson.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Prem.
(d) Whitman.

10. Bertrand ________ says that saving for the future takes the joy away from today, according to the book.
(a) Whitman.
(b) Milton.
(c) Russell.
(d) Shakespeare.

11. When a mother calls her daughter a little __________, she teaches her daughter to begin to admire herself.
(a) Girl.
(b) Princess.
(c) Cat.
(d) Peanut.

12. Saint _______ notes that ignoring one's wealth is much like removing it from one's life entirely, according to the book.
(a) Roman.
(b) Assisi.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Bernard.

13. _________ cautions against spoiling one's child by teaching him to expect more and more out of his life.
(a) John Locke.
(b) Robert Graves.
(c) John Milton.
(d) Walt Whitman.

14. The _________ has cultivated a culture that has begun to confuse comfort with luxury, according to this section of the book.
(a) East.
(b) South.
(c) West.
(d) North.

15. _________ says that poverty, that confirms with the laws of nature, is great wealth, according to the book.
(a) Mother Teresa.
(b) Seneca.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Epicurus.

Short Answer Questions

1. No ________ that is bought, according to Seneca, is respectable, according to this section of the book.

2. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.

3. _______ are taught to want things from a very young age, according to the book's writing in this section.

4. The United States would be the leader of a _______ world if it were to give excess possessions to those in the world who are in need.

5. __________ should be left behind, according to the book, once wealth and possessions have been renounced by a person.

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