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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conspicuous Consumption.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who engages in vicarious consumption?
(a) Slaves.
(b) Men of leisure.
(c) Servants.
(d) Workers.

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

3. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?
(a) Government, military, and the ministry.
(b) Investment banking and diplomacy.
(c) Management, service jobs, and newspapers.
(d) Arts, music, and entertainment.

4. What does Veblen say happens as technology progresses?
(a) Men have more time for prayer.
(b) Men have more children.
(c) Men have more wives.
(d) Men have more time for activities beyond subsistence.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Veblen describe hunting in a predatory culture?

2. Private ownership led to what cultural development?

3. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?

4. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?

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

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