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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Devout Observances.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Veblen, what are sports based on?
(a) The ability to cause damage.
(b) The ability to settle things amicably.
(c) The compulsion to accept defeat.
(d) The desire to impress women.

2. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?
(a) During the transition from savage barbarism to agricultural barbarism.
(b) During the transition from agricultural barbarism to urban mercantilism.
(c) During the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism.
(d) During the transition from mercantilism to early industry.

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

4. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Society persecutes those below that level.
(b) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.
(c) Society bands together to care for those below that level.
(d) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.

5. Who decides what level of consumption is honorable?
(a) The workers.
(b) The community itself.
(c) The merchants.
(d) The aristocrats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do expensive handmade clothes have that cheap imitations do not?

2. How do standards of consumption change?

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

4. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?

5. What form does Veblen say the pressure to change takes?

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