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

2. How does Veblen say the upper classes in an agricultural society see work?
(a) They envy it.
(b) They see it as dishonorable.
(c) They master it.
(d) They idealize it.

3. Who engages in vicarious consumption?
(a) Men of leisure.
(b) Slaves.
(c) Servants.
(d) Workers.

4. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?
(a) Conspicuous servitude.
(b) Conspicuous waste.
(c) Conspicuous produciton.
(d) Conspicuous consumption.

5. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?
(a) Obligatory leisure.
(b) Marginal leisure.
(c) Super-leisure.
(d) Vicarious leisure.

Short Answer Questions

1. How must a man of leisure act?

2. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?

3. What is the relationship between manners and class?

4. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?

5. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

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