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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the upper classes distinguished themselves from the other classes?
(a) They have been able to work at any job they choose.
(b) They have worked only in positions that have prestige.
(c) They have worked at the highest paying jobs.
(d) They have not worked.

2. What clothes should members of the leisure class wear?
(a) Clothes that indicate that they do not work.
(b) Clothes that indicate that they are friendly with their tailors.
(c) Clothes that indicate that they work because the want to.
(d) Clothes that indicate that they inherited their money.

3. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?
(a) It makes people economically insecure.
(b) It makes people conservative.
(c) It makes people frugal.
(d) It makes people warlike.

4. Vicarious consumption reflects whose standing?
(a) The servant's.
(b) The worker's.
(c) The patron's.
(d) The slave's.

5. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?
(a) During the transition from mercantilism to early industry.
(b) During the transition from agricultural barbarism to urban mercantilism.
(c) During the transition from savage barbarism to agricultural barbarism.
(d) During the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affected by the institution of a social class?

2. What does Veblen say a woman's dress indicates about her spouse?

3. What does Veblen say that the leisure-class and lower-class delinquents have in common, along with their belief in an unseen hand?

4. What does Veblen say the act of worshiping appeals to?

5. What does Veblen say motivates conspicuous waste?

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