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

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

3. How does Veblen describe anthropomorphic cults?
(a) As external features of devout observances.
(b) As predatory cultures.
(c) As distractions for industrial classes.
(d) As antepredatory cultures.

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

5. What does Veblen call learning?
(a) Delight and instruction.
(b) Participation in class distinction.
(c) Submission to eternal truth.
(d) Sympathetic magic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes dress a good indicator of conspicuous waste?

2. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?

3. Who decides what level of consumption is honorable?

4. What does Veblen say a woman's dress indicates about her spouse?

5. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?

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