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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which employments were associated with a lower status?
(a) Subsistence tasks.
(b) Diplomatic tasks.
(c) Government tasks.
(d) Crafts.

2. What is the relationship between manners and class?
(a) Manners indicate conformity to the dominant class's fashions.
(b) Manners change from time to time to keep newcomers at a disadvantage.
(c) Manners indicate social climbers.
(d) Manners indicate breeding and status.

3. What does consumption yield to the individual?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Utility.
(c) Status.
(d) Reputation.

4. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?
(a) The need for drudgery.
(b) Ownership of private property.
(c) A governing class.
(d) A priest class.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen call the code of conduct for servants?

2. What does Veblen say results from the possession and consumption of goods?

3. What stage of culture contained the institution of the leisure class?

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

5. Which cultures exhibited the leisure class?

(see the answer key)

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