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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the state of the institution with regard to the present moment?
(a) It represents a snapshot of the present moment.
(b) It transcends the present moment.
(c) It predicts how people will behave in the future.
(d) It is never fully caught up to the present.

2. What kinds of events does Veblen say were arranged by organizations during his time that were related to devout observance?
(a) Grassroots political events.
(b) Team-building seminars.
(c) Sporting events.
(d) Fundraisers.

3. What factor besides luck affects gambling on sports, according to Veblen?
(a) The prestige of the contestants.
(b) Pride in the strength of the winners.
(c) The ability to turn loss into a gambling victory.
(d) The omens that surround the game, such as the weather.

4. To which group does the selection process seem to apply least?
(a) Ethnic types.
(b) Predatory types.
(c) Peaceable types.
(d) Antepredatory variants.

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

6. According to Veblen, new selections of the fittest are driven by changes in what?
(a) Fashions.
(b) Habits.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Institutions.

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

8. What influence does Veblen say affects the anthropomorphic cult's later development?
(a) Bureaucratization.
(b) Industry.
(c) Efficiency.
(d) Charity.

9. What force does Veblen say drives change in the leisure class?
(a) International currency exchange rates.
(b) Economic development.
(c) Political policies.
(d) Changes in religious rituals.

10. Which holiday does Veblen cite as an example of holidays being vicarious leisure?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Labor Day.
(c) Halloween.
(d) Easter.

11. What does Veblen say that the leisure-class and lower-class delinquents have in common, along with their belief in an unseen hand?
(a) An inclination to devout observances.
(b) A refusal to stray from orthodox practices.
(c) An inability to commit to productive labor.
(d) An excessively strong adaptiveness in spiritual matters.

12. In which temperament does Veblen say that gambling originates?
(a) The predatory sentiment.
(b) The agricultural sentiment.
(c) The barbarian sentiment.
(d) The leisure sentiment.

13. What two classes does Veblen distinguish between?
(a) Production and distribution classes.
(b) Acquisition and production classes.
(c) Aesthetic and industrial classes.
(d) Consumption and waste classes.

14. What is it that Veblen says survives as society changes?
(a) Jewels.
(b) The fittest fashions.
(c) The fittest habits.
(d) The fittest ideas.

15. What promotes the predatory aptitudes and predatory animus?
(a) Ownership.
(b) Craftsmanship.
(c) Pecuniary employments.
(d) Industrial labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen say the act of worshiping appeals to?

2. Why do existing institutions foster the propagation of a particular type of person?

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

4. What does Veblen mean by exoteric knowledge?

5. What happens as the lower classes are educated and depend on the leisure class?

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