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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) Community standards of decency had to be fairly loose.
(b) The entire community had to be involved in earning subsistence.
(c) Subsistence could be obtained without the entire community.
(d) The goal of a good life had to involve hard work.

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

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

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

5. How does Veblen say the upper classes in an agricultural society see work?
(a) They idealize it.
(b) They envy it.
(c) They master it.
(d) They see it as dishonorable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vicarious leisure results in what?

2. What does Veblen say happens to cultures that develop knowledge and tools?

3. Which employments were associated with a lower status?

4. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?

5. What does Veblen say was the earliest form of ownership?

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