The Theory of the Leisure Class Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Theory of the Leisure Class Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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 change from time to time to keep newcomers at a disadvantage.
(c) Manners indicate breeding and status.
(d) Manners indicate conformity to the dominant class's fashions.

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

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

4. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?
(a) The upper-class women.
(b) The workers.
(c) The men of leisure in the higher ranks.
(d) The slaves.

5. Vicarious consumption reflects whose standing?
(a) The patron's.
(b) The servant's.
(c) The slave's.
(d) The worker's.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

2. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

3. What happens when men come into wealth through peaceful means?

4. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?

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

(see the answer key)

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