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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?
(a) It is easier to reach what has been just out of reach.
(b) They are free to move down, but it is difficult to move further up.
(c) They try to raise their children with less frivolous things.
(d) It is difficult to move to a lower level.

2. What are the standards of consumption determined by?
(a) Industrial production.
(b) Physical comfort.
(c) Class mobility.
(d) Conspicuous waste and workmanship.

3. Why do existing institutions foster the propagation of a particular type of person?
(a) Because he will bring his family into the institution.
(b) Because he propagates within his family.
(c) Because he fosters the development of social cohesion.
(d) Because he fosters the institution.

4. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?
(a) Luxuries.
(b) Objects with high utility value.
(c) Objects with high exchange value.
(d) Necessities.

5. What does Veblen say that the leisure-class and lower-class delinquents have in common, along with their belief in an unseen hand?
(a) An inability to commit to productive labor.
(b) An excessively strong adaptiveness in spiritual matters.
(c) An inclination to devout observances.
(d) A refusal to stray from orthodox practices.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Veblen says survives as society changes?

2. Vicarious leisure results in what?

3. How does Veblen explain the change of fashion from year to year?

4. Where does Veblen say scholars fit in the social spectrum?

5. To whom does the requirement of excessive clothing apply most?

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