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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 say is the most serious occupation of the leisure class?
(a) Distribution.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Government.
(d) Production.

2. Who engages in vicarious consumption?
(a) Servants.
(b) Workers.
(c) Men of leisure.
(d) Slaves.

3. According to Veblen, there is a natural selection among what?
(a) Forms of consumption.
(b) Ethnic types.
(c) Forms of wastefulness.
(d) Production techniques.

4. How does Veblen explain the change of fashion from year to year?
(a) It is a shallow form of bourgeois emulation of different aristocratic idols.
(b) It is a form of conspicuous waste.
(c) It is a constantly renewed way to police who is current and who is classic.
(d) It is a form of cultural restlessness.

5. What gives an item its desirability to men of the leisure class?
(a) Expensiveness.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Utility.

Short Answer Questions

1. What incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?

2. What two classes does Veblen distinguish between?

3. How does a belief in luck have an effect on efficiency?

4. In which temperament does Veblen say that gambling originates?

5. What is the relationship between manners and class?

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