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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did men use to display their exploits during the earliest forms of ownership?
(a) War booty.
(b) Gold.
(c) Stories.
(d) Enemy women.

2. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?
(a) Starting a family.
(b) Comfort.
(c) Respect.
(d) Reputation.

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

4. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?
(a) Between worthy and unworthy labor.
(b) Between workers, managers, and owners.
(c) Between agitators and protestors.
(d) Between capitalists and communists.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?

2. Which aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?

3. What factors drove the emergence of the leisure class?

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

5. Private ownership led to what cultural development?

(see the answer key)

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