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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 does Veblen say happens to those who can afford not to work?
(a) They engage in conspicuous leisure.
(b) They volunteer.
(c) They help take care of the children and elders.
(d) They work at the most necessary jobs.

2. What does Veblen say happens whenever people acquire a greater ability to pay?
(a) They improve their quality of life.
(b) They buy more items of conspicious consumption.
(c) They invest their money in the community.
(d) They pass their money to their children.

3. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?
(a) The slaves.
(b) The men of leisure in the higher ranks.
(c) The upper-class women.
(d) The workers.

4. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?
(a) During the transition from savage barbarism to agricultural barbarism.
(b) During the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism.
(c) During the transition from agricultural barbarism to urban mercantilism.
(d) During the transition from mercantilism to early industry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say happens to those who need to work but do not work?

2. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?

3. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

4. What does Veblen say causes the emergence of crimes against property?

5. What do silver spoons have that machine-made spoons do not?

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