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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What stage of culture contained the institution of the leisure class?
(a) High stages of barbarian culture.
(b) Early stages of agricultural culture.
(c) Late stages of agricultural culture.
(d) Late stages of hunting culture.

2. How does Veblen say the upper classes in an agricultural society see work?
(a) They idealize it.
(b) They master it.
(c) They envy it.
(d) They see it as dishonorable.

3. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?
(a) Investment banking and diplomacy.
(b) Arts, music, and entertainment.
(c) Government, military, and the ministry.
(d) Management, service jobs, and newspapers.

4. What happens when men come into wealth through peaceful means?
(a) Property becomes an indicator of heritage.
(b) Property becomes an indicator of success.
(c) Property becomes the subject of competition and warfare.
(d) Property becomes the measure of spiritual values.

5. What did men use to display their exploits during the earliest forms of ownership?
(a) Gold.
(b) Enemy women.
(c) War booty.
(d) Stories.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?

2. How does Veblen say members of a society are ranked and judged?

3. How does the upper class distinguish itself, according to Veblen?

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

5. What allowed a leisure class to emerge?

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