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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. Vicarious leisure results in what?
(a) Distinctions among servant classes.
(b) Greater employment.
(c) Competition among owners.
(d) Competition among servant classes.

2. Where did the predatory variant come from?
(a) Inversion of the antepredatory culture.
(b) Evolution from the antepredatory culture.
(c) Evolution from the peaceable culture.
(d) Adaptation from the predatory culture.

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

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

5. What clothes should members of the leisure class wear?
(a) Clothes that indicate that they are friendly with their tailors.
(b) Clothes that indicate that they inherited their money.
(c) Clothes that indicate that they do not work.
(d) Clothes that indicate that they work because the want to.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which stage of culture does the antepredatory variant correlate to?

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

3. Whose theories influenced Veblen's ideas about selective adaptation?

4. What does Veblen say happens to those who can afford not to work?

5. How have the upper classes distinguished themselves from the other classes?

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