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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Which aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) Competition for resources.
(b) A predatory nature in the community.
(c) An ethic of sharing.
(d) Representative government.

3. What is the relationship between manners and class?
(a) Manners indicate breeding and status.
(b) Manners indicate social climbers.
(c) Manners change from time to time to keep newcomers at a disadvantage.
(d) Manners indicate conformity to the dominant class's fashions.

4. Private ownership led to what cultural development?
(a) Competition for goods.
(b) War.
(c) Jealousy and murders.
(d) Dueling.

5. What does Veblen say results from the possession and consumption of goods?
(a) Debt produces a new class of slave.
(b) Widespread physical comforts.
(c) Women demand greater rights.
(d) Competitive sports replace warfare.

Short Answer Questions

1. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?

2. How have the upper classes distinguished themselves from the other classes?

3. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?

4. Where is conspicuous consumption most prevalent?

5. What does Veblen say happens to those who need to work but do not work?

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