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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Devout Observances.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Veblen say motivates conspicuous waste?
(a) The desire to conform to established usage.
(b) The desire to consume excessively.
(c) The desire to give to the poor indirectly.
(d) The desire to demonstrate wealth.

3. What does the belief in luck accompany?
(a) Development of status.
(b) Loss of faith in religion.
(c) Belief in immortality.
(d) Resistance to industrialism.

4. Where did the predatory variant come from?
(a) Adaptation from the predatory culture.
(b) Inversion of the antepredatory culture.
(c) Evolution from the peaceable culture.
(d) Evolution from the antepredatory culture.

5. What happens to the standard of wealth over time?
(a) It declines as efficiencies make wealth easier to obtain.
(b) It keeps increasing as society becomes more efficient.
(c) It remains the same until technology increases efficiencies again.
(d) It changes as trends change.

Short Answer Questions

1. Spending money on churches is an example of what?

2. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?

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

4. What force does Veblen say shapes the standard of living?

5. How does Veblen define leisure?

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