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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Industrial Exemption and Conservatism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did men use to display their exploits during the earliest forms of ownership?
(a) Gold.
(b) Enemy women.
(c) Stories.
(d) War booty.

2. Where does Veblen say scholars fit in the social spectrum?
(a) They are looked up to for their production of cultural materials.
(b) They are looked up to for their vicarious consumption of cultural production.
(c) They are looked down upon for their lower earnings.
(d) They are valued for their high level of expenditures on conspicuous items.

3. Whose theories influenced Veblen's ideas about selective adaptation?
(a) Darwin's.
(b) Marx's.
(c) Lamarck's.
(d) Nietzsche's.

4. What are the standards of consumption determined by?
(a) Conspicuous waste and workmanship.
(b) Physical comfort.
(c) Industrial production.
(d) Class mobility.

5. Vicarious leisure results in what?
(a) Greater employment.
(b) Distinctions among servant classes.
(c) Competition among owners.
(d) Competition among servant classes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen mean by the terms "social inertia" and "conservatism"?

2. To whom does the requirement of excessive clothing apply most?

3. What spiritual need does clothing serve for people?

4. What is reserved for the leisure class?

5. According to Veblen, new selections of the fittest are driven by changes in what?

(see the answer key)

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