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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 incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?
(a) The incentive to fight over property.
(b) The incentive to have children.
(c) The incentive to marry.
(d) The incentive to work.

2. How does Veblen say people can move from the industrial class to the leisure class?
(a) Conspicuous waste.
(b) Marriage.
(c) One cannot move into the leisure class.
(d) Pecuniary employments.

3. What factors drove the emergence of the leisure class?
(a) Military forces.
(b) Economic forces.
(c) Technological forces.
(d) Geographical forces.

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

5. What changes as a result of a change in institutions?
(a) The means of production.
(b) Habits and thoughts.
(c) Economic models.
(d) Technology.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is affected by the institution of a social class?

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

3. Why do people spend more than they need for physical comfort?

4. How does Veblen say the laboring classes in an agricultural society see work?

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

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