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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distinguishes devout structures from other buildings?
(a) They are less elaborate.
(b) They are always open to the public.
(c) They are more comfortable.
(d) They are more ornate.

2. What effect does Veblen say gambling has on industrial efficiency?
(a) Its effect is unpredictable.
(b) It is a hindrance.
(c) It motivates people by increasing debt.
(d) It increases industrial efficiency.

3. What force does Veblen say shapes the standard of living?
(a) The industrial lifestyle.
(b) Human guilt.
(c) Physical hunger.
(d) The predatory animus.

4. How do the clergy indicate the honor of their employment?
(a) By their dress and their nonproductive labor.
(b) By their devout productivity in the Church's work.
(c) By their conspicuous waste of productive land.
(d) By their meditation upon timeless concepts.

5. How does a belief in luck have an effect on efficiency?
(a) It fills people with idle hopes.
(b) It shifts people's attention to nonmaterial forces.
(c) It consumes time in speculation.
(d) It is a deviation from matter-of-fact sequences.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did men use to display their exploits during the earliest forms of ownership?

2. How does Veblen describe anthropomorphic cults?

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

4. What are signs of vicarious consumption?

5. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?

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