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

2. What happens to the standard of wealth over time?
(a) It changes as trends change.
(b) It declines as efficiencies make wealth easier to obtain.
(c) It remains the same until technology increases efficiencies again.
(d) It keeps increasing as society becomes more efficient.

3. What distinguishes devout structures from other buildings?
(a) They are more comfortable.
(b) They are always open to the public.
(c) They are less elaborate.
(d) They are more ornate.

4. What do silver spoons have that machine-made spoons do not?
(a) Utility.
(b) Serviceability.
(c) Conspicuous waste.
(d) Aesthetic design.

5. How does Veblen define leisure?
(a) Using time in nonproductive ways.
(b) Using time in ways that produce entertainment.
(c) Anything that doesn't produce anything.
(d) Anything done outside of work.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?

3. In what activity do delinquents rival the leisure class?

4. Who decides what level of consumption is honorable?

5. How do standards of consumption change?

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