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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between manners and class?
(a) Manners indicate social climbers.
(b) Manners indicate breeding and status.
(c) Manners change from time to time to keep newcomers at a disadvantage.
(d) Manners indicate conformity to the dominant class's fashions.

2. Private ownership led to what cultural development?
(a) Dueling.
(b) Competition for goods.
(c) Jealousy and murders.
(d) War.

3. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?
(a) The need for drudgery.
(b) A governing class.
(c) A priest class.
(d) Ownership of private property.

4. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?
(a) It gives renown.
(b) It is honorable.
(c) It resolves disputes.
(d) It provides happiness.

5. When did the leisure class become part of society?
(a) At the same time ownership did.
(b) At the same time slavery did.
(c) At the same time religion did.
(d) At the same time technology did.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Veblen classify industrial labor in industrial societies?

2. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?

3. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?

4. What happens to the standard of wealth over time?

5. What stage of culture contained the institution of the leisure class?

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