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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who decides what level of consumption is honorable?
(a) The aristocrats.
(b) The merchants.
(c) The community itself.
(d) The workers.

2. How do standards of consumption change?
(a) Slower in societies with more social mobility.
(b) They change with every season.
(c) Faster in societies with less social mobility.
(d) Very slowly over time.

3. What principle does Veblen say guides the consumer's habits?
(a) Conspicuous waste.
(b) Vicarious waste.
(c) Conspicuous consumption.
(d) Vicarious consumption.

4. According to Veblen, there is a natural selection among what?
(a) Forms of wastefulness.
(b) Production techniques.
(c) Ethnic types.
(d) Forms of consumption.

5. What does Veblen say was the earliest form of ownership?
(a) Ownership of land.
(b) Ownership of hunting rights.
(c) Ownership of women.
(d) Ownership of songs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the leisure class become part of society?

2. Which ethnic type does Veblen say has more predatory traits?

3. Under what conditions is there a quasi-peaceful stage in Western culture, according to Veblen?

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

5. Private ownership led to what cultural development?

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