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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 makes dress a good indicator of conspicuous waste?
(a) Everyone knows how much clothing costs.
(b) It can be made in so many different ways.
(c) It is always on display.
(d) Everyone has to wear it.

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

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

4. What is it that forces the resistant social classes to adapt to new conditions?
(a) Competition from other classes.
(b) The stability of the class structure itself.
(c) The cost of adapting.
(d) The stress involved in keeping their traditions.

5. How does Veblen classify industrial labor in industrial societies?
(a) As women's work.
(b) As work that does not produce food or shelter.
(c) As work done by machines.
(d) As men's work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Veblen says survives as society changes?

2. Why, according to Veblen, were women excluded from education?

3. In what activity do delinquents rival the leisure class?

4. What factor besides luck affects gambling on sports, according to Veblen?

5. What does Veblen say results from the possession and consumption of goods?

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