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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pecuniary Canons of Taste.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What standard does Veblen say guides people's behavior?
(a) The standard of the highest ranking relative in their ancestry.
(b) The standard of the class just beyond their reach.
(c) The standard of the class they were born into.
(d) The standard of the people surrounding them.

3. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?
(a) Vicarious leisure.
(b) Obligatory leisure.
(c) Marginal leisure.
(d) Super-leisure.

4. Which employments were associated with a lower status?
(a) Subsistence tasks.
(b) Diplomatic tasks.
(c) Crafts.
(d) Government tasks.

5. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?
(a) That they worked alongside the rest.
(b) That they offered their vassals' labor to the priests.
(c) That they invested the capital and give laborers the means of production.
(d) That they were barred from physical labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vicarious leisure results in what?

2. When did the leisure class become part of society?

3. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?

4. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?

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

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