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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 are signs of vicarious consumption?
(a) Costume and dress of servants.
(b) Open air markets for servants.
(c) Volunteering among the poor.
(d) Making loans to workers.

2. How does Veblen define leisure?
(a) Anything that doesn't produce anything.
(b) Using time in ways that produce entertainment.
(c) Using time in nonproductive ways.
(d) Anything done outside of work.

3. What does Veblen say comprises people's standard of living?
(a) Their debt.
(b) Their luxuries.
(c) Their necessary consumption.
(d) Their habitual expenditures.

4. Where does Veblen say scholars fit in the social spectrum?
(a) They are valued for their high level of expenditures on conspicuous items.
(b) They are looked up to for their vicarious consumption of cultural production.
(c) They are looked down upon for their lower earnings.
(d) They are looked up to for their production of cultural materials.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say motivates conspicuous waste?

2. Spending money on churches is an example of what?

3. What principle does Veblen say guides the consumer's habits?

4. How must a man of leisure act?

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

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