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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Each cell in a _______ is built at an angle which provides the most strength but requires the least amount of materials to hold it up.
(a) Pod.
(b) Beehive.
(c) Home.
(d) Leaf.

2. Saint Bernard is criticized for riding a ________ while making his rounds to the poor, according to the book.
(a) Mule.
(b) Elephant.
(c) Horse.
(d) Wagon.

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

4. ________ advocates a luxury that has nothing to do with money, rather he sees it as food for the soul, according to the book.
(a) Cocteau.
(b) Whitman.
(c) Thoreau.
(d) Seneca.

5. __________ should be left behind, according to the book, once wealth and possessions have been renounced by a person.
(a) Everything.
(b) Older people.
(c) Children.
(d) Nothing.

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

7. __________ can become a hindrance to the journey while also being a disturbance on the way to victory, according to the book.
(a) Baggage.
(b) Pain.
(c) Weight.
(d) Dishonesty.

8. No ________ can surpass simplicity, according to St. Francois de Sales, according to this section of the book.
(a) Artifice.
(b) Home.
(c) Word.
(d) Stone.

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

10. The _______, who is in touch with life, can recognize its riches as well as its tragedies, according to the book.
(a) Artist.
(b) Poor.
(c) Spiritual seeker.
(d) President.

11. John Burroughs says that he has been too busy enjoying the ______ to seek wealth, according to the book.
(a) World.
(b) Museums.
(c) Art.
(d) Promise of tomorrow.

12. _________ points out that while there is no money in poetry, there is also no poetry in money, according to the book.
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) Joseph Campbell.
(c) Robert Graves.
(d) Henry David Thoreau.

13. ________ does not limit how much is built on the lands or how many fish are taken from the waters, according to the book.
(a) Man.
(b) Woman.
(c) God.
(d) Government.

14. Robert Henri says that people are overlaid with ________ in their minds and in their souls, according to the book.
(a) Fear.
(b) Longing.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Anger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Socrates overheard someone else talking about how expensive ________ was at the time, according to the book.

2. _________, says Robert Henri, is a privilege that one is willing to pay for, which is why it is so special, according to the book.

3. It is human _________, according to the book, to save for an uncertain future which starts off this section of the book.

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

5. Saint _______ notes that ignoring one's wealth is much like removing it from one's life entirely, according to the book.

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