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

2. Which cultures exhibited the leisure class?
(a) Feudal Europe.
(b) Primitive Indonesia.
(c) Migratory American Indians.
(d) Postindustrial America.

3. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?
(a) Virtue.
(b) Status.
(c) Class.
(d) Profession.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say happens to cultures that develop knowledge and tools?

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

3. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?

4. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?

5. Which occupation would the leisure class have worked as?

(see the answer key)

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