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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 happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.
(b) Society persecutes those below that level.
(c) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.
(d) Society bands together to care for those below that level.

2. Who performs the most vicarious consumption, according to Veblen?
(a) Children.
(b) The women of the household.
(c) Servants.
(d) The wage earner.

3. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?
(a) Workers and parasites.
(b) Industrial and nonindustrial classes.
(c) Blue-collar and white-collar classes.
(d) Proletariat and bourgeoisie.

4. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?
(a) Unproductive aggression.
(b) Savagery.
(c) Exploitation.
(d) Disgruntlement.

5. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?
(a) In higher barbarian stages of culture.
(b) In lower barbarian stages of culture.
(c) In early industrial stages of culture.
(d) In high industrial stages of culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say is the most serious occupation of the leisure class?

2. Who decides what level of consumption is honorable?

3. What are the standards of consumption determined by?

4. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?

5. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?

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