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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. What makes dress a good indicator of conspicuous waste?
(a) It is always on display.
(b) It can be made in so many different ways.
(c) Everyone knows how much clothing costs.
(d) Everyone has to wear it.

2. What does Veblen say causes an item of clothing to be seen as inferior?
(a) If it is gaudy.
(b) If it is cheap.
(c) If it is widely available.
(d) If it is easy to manufacture.

3. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?
(a) The workers.
(b) The men of leisure in the higher ranks.
(c) The upper-class women.
(d) The slaves.

4. What are signs of vicarious consumption?
(a) Making loans to workers.
(b) Costume and dress of servants.
(c) Volunteering among the poor.
(d) Open air markets for servants.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Vicarious leisure results in what?

2. What aspect of man's character does gambling originate in, according to Veblen?

3. Where is conspicuous consumption most prevalent?

4. What factor besides luck affects gambling on sports, according to Veblen?

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

(see the answer key)

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