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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 devout productivity in the Church's work.
(b) By their dress and their nonproductive labor.
(c) By their meditation upon timeless concepts.
(d) By their conspicuous waste of productive land.

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

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

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

5. What is the relationship between manners and class?
(a) Manners indicate social climbers.
(b) Manners indicate conformity to the dominant class's fashions.
(c) Manners indicate breeding and status.
(d) Manners change from time to time to keep newcomers at a disadvantage.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

2. What incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?

3. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?

4. How does Veblen classify industrial labor in industrial societies?

5. What factors drove the emergence of the leisure class?

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