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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?
(a) In early industrial stages of culture.
(b) In lower barbarian stages of culture.
(c) In higher barbarian stages of culture.
(d) In high industrial stages of culture.

2. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?
(a) That they offered their vassals' labor to the priests.
(b) That they were barred from physical labor.
(c) That they worked alongside the rest.
(d) That they invested the capital and give laborers the means of production.

3. How does Veblen classify industrial labor in industrial societies?
(a) As work that does not produce food or shelter.
(b) As work done by machines.
(c) As men's work.
(d) As women's work.

4. What incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?
(a) The incentive to have children.
(b) The incentive to marry.
(c) The incentive to work.
(d) The incentive to fight over property.

5. Which cultures exhibited the leisure class?
(a) Primitive Indonesia.
(b) Migratory American Indians.
(c) Feudal Europe.
(d) Postindustrial America.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

2. Which employments were associated with a lower status?

3. How have the upper classes distinguished themselves from the other classes?

4. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?

5. What happens when men come into wealth through peaceful means?

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