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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Belief in Luck.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Veblen define conspicuous consumption?
(a) A refined set of mannerisms displayed while consuming status symbols.
(b) Vulgar or unnecessary displays of wealth.
(c) The display of wealth in front of witnesses to wealth.
(d) An act of consumption that involves more than one person.

2. What does the belief in luck accompany?
(a) Belief in immortality.
(b) Resistance to industrialism.
(c) Development of status.
(d) Loss of faith in religion.

3. To what agency does Veblen attribute industrial man's faith in luck?
(a) God.
(b) The spirit of the times.
(c) Spirits of a place.
(d) The unseen hand.

4. Who engages in vicarious consumption?
(a) Servants.
(b) Men of leisure.
(c) Slaves.
(d) Workers.

5. What spiritual need does clothing serve for people?
(a) Veblen says that it reminds them of the discomforts Christ suffered.
(b) Veblen says that it comforts them as God comforts them.
(c) Veblen says that it helps them conform to society.
(d) Veblen says that it helps them raise their eyes to the skies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the term Veblen uses for the belief that a sports event can be influenced by outside factors?

3. Vicarious consumption reflects whose standing?

4. What clothes should members of the leisure class wear?

5. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

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