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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 happens whenever people acquire a greater ability to pay?
(a) They invest their money in the community.
(b) They buy more items of conspicious consumption.
(c) They pass their money to their children.
(d) They improve their quality of life.

2. How does Veblen say wealth is obtained?
(a) Through exploitation.
(b) Through hoarding.
(c) Through labor.
(d) Through conspicious consumption.

3. What stage of culture contained the institution of the leisure class?
(a) Late stages of hunting culture.
(b) High stages of barbarian culture.
(c) Early stages of agricultural culture.
(d) Late stages of agricultural culture.

4. What does Veblen say happens as technology progresses?
(a) Men have more wives.
(b) Men have more time for activities beyond subsistence.
(c) Men have more children.
(d) Men have more time for prayer.

5. What does consumption yield to the individual?
(a) Utility.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Status.
(d) Reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?

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

3. What standard does Veblen say guides people's behavior?

4. Private ownership led to what cultural development?

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

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