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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. How does a man of leisure indicate his position in society?
(a) By his association with people of renown.
(b) By consuming and giving away certain things.
(c) By volunteering to help the poor.
(d) By giving money to charities.

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

3. How does Veblen say members of a society are ranked and judged?
(a) In terms of their noble lineage.
(b) In terms of their morals.
(c) In terms of their wealth.
(d) In terms of their power.

4. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?
(a) It provides happiness.
(b) It is honorable.
(c) It gives renown.
(d) It resolves disputes.

5. Whose theories influenced Veblen's ideas about selective adaptation?
(a) Marx's.
(b) Darwin's.
(c) Lamarck's.
(d) Nietzsche's.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Vicarious leisure results in what?

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