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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?
(a) It provides happiness.
(b) It is honorable.
(c) It resolves disputes.
(d) It gives renown.

2. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?
(a) Workers and parasites.
(b) Proletariat and bourgeoisie.
(c) Industrial and nonindustrial classes.
(d) Blue-collar and white-collar classes.

3. What does Veblen say happens to those who need to work but do not work?
(a) They become beggars.
(b) They take care of the children and elders.
(c) They are taken care by the stronger workers.
(d) They are exiled.

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

5. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?
(a) Between aristocratic and democratic.
(b) Between upper-class and lower-class merchants.
(c) Between landed and monied gentry.
(d) Between noble and ignoble.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?

2. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?

3. What does Veblen say is the motive for ownership?

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

5. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?

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