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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. How does Veblen classify industrial labor in industrial societies?
(a) As work done by machines.
(b) As men's work.
(c) As women's work.
(d) As work that does not produce food or shelter.

5. Which occupation would the leisure class have worked as?
(a) Writer.
(b) Engraver.
(c) Minister.
(d) Merchant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which employments were associated with a lower status?

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

3. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?

4. What does Veblen say possessions indicate in an ownership society?

5. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?

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