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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conspicuous Consumption.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is reserved for the leisure class?
(a) Travel.
(b) Possession of slaves.
(c) Owning property.
(d) Luxuries like jewelry.

2. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Society persecutes those below that level.
(b) Society bands together to care for those below that level.
(c) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.
(d) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.

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

4. Who engages in vicarious consumption?
(a) Servants.
(b) Men of leisure.
(c) Workers.
(d) Slaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?

2. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?

3. How does Veblen define conspicuous consumption?

4. What does Veblen say happens to cultures that develop knowledge and tools?

5. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?

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