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

2. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?
(a) It makes people conservative.
(b) It makes people warlike.
(c) It makes people frugal.
(d) It makes people economically insecure.

3. How must a man of leisure act?
(a) With no respect or regard for his inferiors.
(b) With decorum appropriate to his station.
(c) WIth appreciation for the technical trades that allow him his leisure.
(d) With deference toward his equals and superiors.

4. What does Veblen say results from the possession and consumption of goods?
(a) Debt produces a new class of slave.
(b) Competitive sports replace warfare.
(c) Widespread physical comforts.
(d) Women demand greater rights.

5. What does Veblen say public lawns have?
(a) Pecuniary beauty.
(b) Lower maintenance than pastures.
(c) Emulation of pastures.
(d) More aesthetic beauty than pastures.

Short Answer Questions

1. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?

2. What does consumption yield to the individual?

3. What does Veblen say possessions indicate in an ownership society?

4. When did the leisure class become part of society?

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

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