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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Higher Learning as an Expression of the Pecuniary Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Veblen consider education to be?
(a) A form of pecuniary waste.
(b) A form of conspicuous consumption.
(c) A form of vicarious leisure.
(d) A form of vicarious consumption.

2. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?
(a) Necessities.
(b) Objects with high utility value.
(c) Objects with high exchange value.
(d) Luxuries.

3. What does Veblen mean by esoteric knowledge?
(a) Knowledge that can be developed in an industrial capacity.
(b) Knowledge that is applied to industry.
(c) Knowledge that has nothing to do with industry.
(d) Knowledge that questions the nature of God.

4. What, in Veblen's description, does education accomplish?
(a) It forms habits and thoughts.
(b) It drives the expansion of the leisure class.
(c) It lays the foundation for inventions.
(d) It opens the leisure class to newly wealthy people.

5. Who performs the most vicarious consumption, according to Veblen?
(a) The women of the household.
(b) The wage earner.
(c) Servants.
(d) Children.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Veblen compare the martial spirit in lower-class delinquents?

2. What does Veblen say the act of worshiping appeals to?

3. How does Veblen say people can move from the industrial class to the leisure class?

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

5. What does the belief in luck accompany?

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