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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Veblen say members of a society are ranked and judged?
(a) In terms of their morals.
(b) In terms of their wealth.
(c) In terms of their noble lineage.
(d) In terms of their power.

2. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?
(a) Between agitators and protestors.
(b) Between worthy and unworthy labor.
(c) Between capitalists and communists.
(d) Between workers, managers, and owners.

3. What principle does Veblen say guides the consumer's habits?
(a) Vicarious waste.
(b) Vicarious consumption.
(c) Conspicuous waste.
(d) Conspicuous consumption.

4. What does Veblen say clothing is designed for?
(a) Protection.
(b) Show.
(c) Health.
(d) Support.

5. What do expensive handmade clothes have that cheap imitations do not?
(a) More authentic components.
(b) The aesthetic quality of the original.
(c) The signature of the maker.
(d) Patented features.

Short Answer Questions

1. Vicarious consumption reflects whose standing?

2. What does Veblen say is evidence of people's concern with their appearances?

3. As leisure classes develop, whom do the marginal men of leisure in the lower ranks affiliate themselves with?

4. What does Veblen say was the earliest form of ownership?

5. What happens to the standard of wealth over time?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are habits formed?

2. How does the individual consumer think of his conspicuous waste?

3. What are the two conditions necessary for the development of the leisure class?

4. How did women practice production and consumption in early predatory culture?

5. How has the leisure class evolved from the times of hunting cultures?

6. How does Veblen describe the differences between the sexes and the effect of those differences on economic life of a society?

7. How does Veblen define leisure?

8. In what way is dress an example of conspicuous waste?

9. How does the labor class view its work?

10. What distinguishes the leisure class from the other classes?

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