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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Modern Survivals of Prowess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How have the upper classes distinguished themselves from the other classes?
(a) They have worked at the highest paying jobs.
(b) They have not worked.
(c) They have been able to work at any job they choose.
(d) They have worked only in positions that have prestige.

2. How does Veblen explain the change of fashion from year to year?
(a) It is a form of conspicuous waste.
(b) It is a shallow form of bourgeois emulation of different aristocratic idols.
(c) It is a constantly renewed way to police who is current and who is classic.
(d) It is a form of cultural restlessness.

3. What makes dress a good indicator of conspicuous waste?
(a) Everyone has to wear it.
(b) It can be made in so many different ways.
(c) Everyone knows how much clothing costs.
(d) It is always on display.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?

2. What promotes the predatory aptitudes and predatory animus?

3. What does Veblen say is the motive for ownership?

4. What does Veblen say was the earliest form of ownership?

5. How does Veblen say people can move from the industrial class to the leisure class?

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