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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pecuniary Emulation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which employments were associated with a lower status?
(a) Diplomatic tasks.
(b) Government tasks.
(c) Subsistence tasks.
(d) Crafts.

2. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?
(a) Ownership of private property.
(b) The need for drudgery.
(c) A priest class.
(d) A governing class.

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

4. What allowed a leisure class to emerge?
(a) Improvements in production efficiency.
(b) Exploitation of workers.
(c) Differentiation and specialization of labor.
(d) Expansion of the military.

5. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) The entire community had to be involved in earning subsistence.
(b) Community standards of decency had to be fairly loose.
(c) The goal of a good life had to involve hard work.
(d) Subsistence could be obtained without the entire community.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which occupation would the leisure class have worked as?

3. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?

4. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?

5. What was the state of the leisure class in hunting cultures?

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