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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Devout Observances.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What age does Veblen say worshiping corresponds to?
(a) The peaceful age.
(b) The antepredatory age.
(c) The industrial age.
(d) The barbarian age.

2. What is the term Veblen uses for the belief that a sports event can be influenced by outside factors?
(a) Hamingia.
(b) Animism.
(c) Mysticism.
(d) Hamartia.

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

4. According to Veblen, what are sports based on?
(a) The ability to cause damage.
(b) The ability to settle things amicably.
(c) The compulsion to accept defeat.
(d) The desire to impress women.

5. Which holiday does Veblen cite as an example of holidays being vicarious leisure?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Halloween.
(d) Easter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?

2. How does Veblen describe sports?

3. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?

4. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?

5. To which group does the selection process seem to apply least?

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