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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. What does Veblen say a woman's dress indicates about her spouse?
(a) Her affection for him.
(b) Her reliance upon him.
(c) Her independence from him.
(d) Her interdependence upon him.

2. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?
(a) Between upper-class and lower-class merchants.
(b) Between landed and monied gentry.
(c) Between noble and ignoble.
(d) Between aristocratic and democratic.

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

4. What is it that Veblen says survives as society changes?
(a) The fittest habits.
(b) Jewels.
(c) The fittest fashions.
(d) The fittest ideas.

5. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?
(a) They are free to move down, but it is difficult to move further up.
(b) They try to raise their children with less frivolous things.
(c) It is difficult to move to a lower level.
(d) It is easier to reach what has been just out of reach.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Veblen mean by the terms "social inertia" and "conservatism"?

3. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?

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

5. What standard does Veblen say guides people's behavior?

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