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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 form does Veblen say the pressure to change takes?
(a) Emergencies.
(b) Crises.
(c) The threat of war.
(d) Pecuniary exigencies.

2. Why does Veblen say women wore corsets?
(a) Because discomfort was a luxury.
(b) Because restricting their movements made them less threatening.
(c) Because making them slenderer made them seem more expensive.
(d) Because restricting their movements prevented them from work.

3. What standard does Veblen say guides people's behavior?
(a) The standard of the highest ranking relative in their ancestry.
(b) The standard of the class just beyond their reach.
(c) The standard of the people surrounding them.
(d) The standard of the class they were born into.

4. What does Veblen say is the motive for ownership?
(a) Competitiveness.
(b) Possessiveness.
(c) Envy.
(d) Emulation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Selective adaptation governs what?

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

3. What does Veblen say possessions indicate in an ownership society?

4. What factors drove the emergence of the leisure class?

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

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