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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of value does Veblen say gambling has?
(a) A spiritual value.
(b) An evolutionary value.
(c) A predictive value.
(d) A direct economic value.

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

4. What does Veblen consider education to be?
(a) A form of conspicuous consumption.
(b) A form of vicarious consumption.
(c) A form of pecuniary waste.
(d) A form of vicarious leisure.

5. What does Veblen say about his purposes in describing anthropomorphic cults?
(a) He says that he wants to show how they are part of culture.
(b) He says that he judges them for their detachment from Christian principles.
(c) He says that he wants to expose them as imitations of archaic religions.
(d) He says that he wants people to see them as conspicuous waste.

6. 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.

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

8. What aspect of man's character does gambling originate in, according to Veblen?
(a) The predatory character.
(b) The peaceable character.
(c) The antepredatory character.
(d) The religious character.

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

10. According to Veblen, how do men's attitudes change as they acquire more and more pecuniary interest in their work?
(a) They begin to spend more time with their families.
(b) They become more ashamed of it.
(c) They take more pride in it.
(d) They begin to give more to charity.

11. What does Veblen say fighting does for lower-class delinquents?
(a) Veblen says that it threatens the upper classes.
(b) Veblen says that it culls the weak.
(c) Veblen says that it asserts manhood.
(d) Veblen says that it settles property disputes.

12. Which ethnic type does Veblen say has more predatory traits?
(a) Dolichocephalic blonds.
(b) Brachycephalic brunettes.
(c) Nordics.
(d) Mediterraneans.

13. Under what conditions does Veblen say that members of the industrial class will fight?
(a) He says they will fight for almost any reason.
(b) When someone's honor has been insulted.
(c) When they want to settle a score.
(d) When they are angry or drunk.

14. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?
(a) Disgruntlement.
(b) Exploitation.
(c) Unproductive aggression.
(d) Savagery.

15. To what does Veblen compare the martial spirit in lower-class delinquents?
(a) Drunkenness.
(b) The college spirit in sports.
(c) The state of war.
(d) Youthful impetuosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which stage of culture does the antepredatory variant correlate to?

2. How does Veblen describe sports?

3. What does Veblen say is the reason for gambling?

4. According to Veblen, there is a natural selection among what?

5. To what does Veblen say that education is similar?

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