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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Industrial Exemption and Conservatism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Under what conditions is there a quasi-peaceful stage in Western culture, according to Veblen?
(a) When money becomes the measure of social status.
(b) When technology makes life easier.
(c) When status is the dominant feature of life.
(d) When the draft is ended.

2. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Class.
(c) Status.
(d) Profession.

3. Why do people spend more than they need for physical comfort?
(a) They need to stimulate their local economy.
(b) They conform to a code of decency.
(c) They want to impress their superiors.
(d) They cannot keep excess wealth.

4. Who performs the most vicarious consumption, according to Veblen?
(a) Servants.
(b) The women of the household.
(c) The wage earner.
(d) Children.

5. What is it that forces the resistant social classes to adapt to new conditions?
(a) The stability of the class structure itself.
(b) Competition from other classes.
(c) The cost of adapting.
(d) The stress involved in keeping their traditions.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, new selections of the fittest are driven by changes in what?

2. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

3. Who engages in vicarious consumption?

4. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?

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

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