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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 distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?
(a) Women can contain men's emotions.
(b) Women are more empathetic.
(c) Men can endure greater strains.
(d) Men are more aggressive.

2. What does Veblen say results from the possession and consumption of goods?
(a) Competitive sports replace warfare.
(b) Women demand greater rights.
(c) Debt produces a new class of slave.
(d) Widespread physical comforts.

3. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?
(a) In high industrial stages of culture.
(b) In early industrial stages of culture.
(c) In higher barbarian stages of culture.
(d) In lower barbarian stages of culture.

4. Which occupation would the leisure class have worked as?
(a) Writer.
(b) Merchant.
(c) Minister.
(d) Engraver.

5. What does Veblen say was the center of modern communities during his time?
(a) Nostalgia for nature.
(b) Industrial efficiency.
(c) The inherited triumphs from wars.
(d) The guilt inherited from wars.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say is the most serious occupation of the leisure class?

2. Why does Veblen say women wore corsets?

3. How does Veblen define leisure?

4. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?

5. What effect does Veblen say gambling has on industrial efficiency?

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