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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did the leisure class become part of society?
(a) At the same time slavery did.
(b) At the same time religion did.
(c) At the same time technology did.
(d) At the same time ownership did.

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

3. How do the clergy indicate the honor of their employment?
(a) By their conspicuous waste of productive land.
(b) By their devout productivity in the Church's work.
(c) By their meditation upon timeless concepts.
(d) By their dress and their nonproductive labor.

4. What was the state of the leisure class in hunting cultures?
(a) It did not exist.
(b) It existed only for the priests.
(c) It was developing but still competing with the communal lifestyle.
(d) It was highly developed, and hunters exploit the women for their labor.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the upper class distinguish itself, according to Veblen?

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

3. What does consumption yield to the individual?

4. Private ownership led to what cultural development?

5. How does Veblen say members of a society are ranked and judged?

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