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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conspicuous Consumption.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?
(a) Women are more empathetic.
(b) Men can endure greater strains.
(c) Men are more aggressive.
(d) Women can contain men's emotions.

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

3. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) The goal of a good life had to involve hard work.
(b) Subsistence could be obtained without the entire community.
(c) The entire community had to be involved in earning subsistence.
(d) Community standards of decency had to be fairly loose.

4. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?
(a) Between capitalists and communists.
(b) Between workers, managers, and owners.
(c) Between worthy and unworthy labor.
(d) Between agitators and protestors.

5. Which aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) Competition for resources.
(b) A predatory nature in the community.
(c) Representative government.
(d) An ethic of sharing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Veblen define conspicuous consumption?

2. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?

3. How must a man of leisure act?

4. What does Veblen say happens to those who can afford not to work?

5. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?

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