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Indiana University Studies 



We often think of a rich man as one who has much money, as if money and 

 wealth meant the same thing. However, money is only one sort of wealth and some 

 money is not exactly wealth. A twenty dollar bill, for example, is only some- 

 one's promise to pay so much gold. Wealth means land, houses, food, clothes, 

 jewels, tools, gold, silver, coal, iron — anything that a man can have that satisfies 

 some want. Money means something which a person can exchange for any 

 one of many sorts of wealth. The main value of any piece of wealth, such as a 

 barrel of flour, a house, or a cow is the direct use you can make of it. The value 

 it has by reason of what you can change it for is of less importance. The main 

 value of any piece of money, such as a silver dollar, a ten dollar bill, or a nickel, 

 is NOT any direct use you can make of it. Its main value is that you can ex- 

 change it for something that is of direct use. For this reason, it is called a 

 ^'medium of exchange''. 



1. What two things are contrasted in this paragraph? 



2. How could a man be rich and still not own a single penny of money? 



3. Name something that is money, but is not exactly wealth. 



Read this and then wite the answers to questions 4 and 5. All questions 

 must be answered from the paragraph. Read it again as often as you 

 need to. 



It may seem at first thought that every boy and girl who goes to school ought 

 to do all the work that the teacher wishes done. But sometiynes other duties pre- 

 vent even the best boy or girl from doing so. If a boy's or girl's father died and 

 he had to work afterjioons and evenings to earn money to help his mother, such 

 might be the case. A good girl might let her lessons go undone in order to help 

 her mother by taking care of the baby. 



4. What are some conditions that might make even the best boy leave 

 school work unfinished? 



5. What might be the effect of his father's death upon the way a boy 

 spent his time? 



Set VI OR 60 • 



Read this and then mrte answers to questions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. All ques- 

 tions must be answered from the paragraph. Read the paragarph as often 

 as you need to. 



Every one of the million readers of anecdotes, or memoirs, or lives of Napoleon, 

 delights in the page, because he studies in it his own history. Napoleon is thor- 

 oughly modern, and, at the highest point of his fortunes, has the very spirit of 

 the newspapers. He is no saint, — to use hi's own words, ''no capuchin" , and he 

 is no hero, in the high sense. The man in the street finds in him the qualities 

 and powers of other men in the street. He finds him, like himself, by birth a 

 citizen, who, by very intelligible merits arrived at such a commanding position, 

 that he could indulge all those tastes which the common man possesses, but is 

 obliged to conceal and deny, good society, good books, fast traveling, dress, dinners, 

 servants without number, personal weight, the execution of his ideas, the stand- 

 ing ill the attitude of a benefactor to all persons above him, the refined enjoyments 

 of pictures, statues, music, palaces and conventional honors, — precisely what is 

 agreeble to the heart of every man in the nineteenth century. 



