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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What, according to Veblen, has shaped women's experiences?
(a) Charitable organizations.
(b) Tradition.
(c) Men.
(d) Religion.

2. According to Veblen, women in the leisure class are partially exempt from what?
(a) Pecuniary pressures.
(b) Spiritual pressures.
(c) Familial pressures.
(d) Cultural pressures.

3. According to Veblen, what are sports based on?
(a) The ability to settle things amicably.
(b) The compulsion to accept defeat.
(c) The ability to cause damage.
(d) The desire to impress women.

4. In what activity do delinquents rival the leisure class?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Production.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Unproductive leisure.

5. Why, according to Veblen, do the leisure class's traits survive?
(a) Because the leisure class is sheltered.
(b) Because the leisure class is cosmopolitan.
(c) Because the leisure class is an open society.
(d) Because the leisure class is resistent to adaptation.

6. Whose theories influenced Veblen's ideas about selective adaptation?
(a) Nietzsche's.
(b) Darwin's.
(c) Lamarck's.
(d) Marx's.

7. Selective adaptation governs what?
(a) Who survives socially.
(b) The fashion from year to year.
(c) Who works for whom.
(d) The display of wealth.

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

9. What does Veblen say God represents in the anthropomorphic creed?
(a) The meekness of men.
(b) The heart of compassion.
(c) THe spirit of cooperation.
(d) The habit of dominance.

10. How does Veblen describe the industrial classes' relationship with sports?
(a) As a form of warfare.
(b) As a passion.
(c) As an occasional diversion.
(d) As an addiction.

11. What does the belief in luck accompany?
(a) Development of status.
(b) Belief in immortality.
(c) Loss of faith in religion.
(d) Resistance to industrialism.

12. What is education's relationship with the supernatural, according to Veblen?
(a) Education allows people to live by reason instead of superstition.
(b) Education provides the agents of growth and individual development that prove the doctrine of divine grace.
(c) Education proves the correctness of church doctrine.
(d) Education gives people knowledge for their devout observances.

13. Why, according to Veblen, were women excluded from education?
(a) They were independent.
(b) They were subservient.
(c) They were distracting.
(d) They were unprepared.

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

15. How does Veblen describe sports?
(a) As vicarious leisure.
(b) As nonproductive labor.
(c) As dishonorable waste.
(d) As decorous recreation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Veblen say the leisure class lived during his time?

2. When, according to Veblen, does the leisure class change most?

3. What does Veblen see as evidence of the martial spirit in the leisure class?

4. What kind of value does Veblen say gambling has?

5. What is the term Veblen uses for the belief that a sports event can be influenced by outside factors?

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