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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Society bands together to care for those below that level.
(b) Society persecutes those below that level.
(c) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.
(d) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.

2. What does Veblen say an ownership society motivates people to do?
(a) Conquer other people.
(b) Keep money within the family.
(c) Work hard.
(d) Steal.

3. 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.

4. What does Veblen call the code of conduct for servants?
(a) Mechanical efficiency.
(b) Conspicuous discomfort.
(c) Service with a smile.
(d) Conspicuous subservience.

5. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?
(a) Between workers, managers, and owners.
(b) Between capitalists and communists.
(c) Between worthy and unworthy labor.
(d) Between agitators and protestors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does consumption yield to the individual?

2. What is the relationship between manners and class?

3. What is reserved for the leisure class?

4. What allowed a leisure class to emerge?

5. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

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