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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. What does Veblen say is the motive for ownership?
(a) Emulation.
(b) Possessiveness.
(c) Envy.
(d) Competitiveness.

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

3. Private ownership led to what cultural development?
(a) War.
(b) Competition for goods.
(c) Dueling.
(d) Jealousy and murders.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?

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

4. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?

5. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?

(see the answer key)

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