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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Veblen say is the motive for ownership?
(a) Competitiveness.
(b) Emulation.
(c) Possessiveness.
(d) Envy.

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

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. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?
(a) Women can contain men's emotions.
(b) Women are more empathetic.
(c) Men can endure greater strains.
(d) Men are more aggressive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Veblen say happens as technology progresses?

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

4. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?

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

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