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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. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?
(a) Class.
(b) Virtue.
(c) Profession.
(d) Status.

2. How does Veblen say wealth is obtained?
(a) Through exploitation.
(b) Through labor.
(c) Through hoarding.
(d) Through conspicious consumption.

3. Where did the earliest form of ownership take place?
(a) In early industrial stages of culture.
(b) In higher barbarian stages of culture.
(c) In high industrial stages of culture.
(d) In lower barbarian stages of culture.

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

5. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?
(a) Necessities.
(b) Objects with high exchange value.
(c) Objects with high utility value.
(d) Luxuries.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

2. What are the standards of consumption determined by?

3. How does the upper class distinguish itself, according to Veblen?

4. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?

5. What does Veblen say a woman's dress indicates about her spouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the clergy demonstrate vicarious leisure?

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

4. What kinds of feats replace productivity for the leisure class?

5. How does the leisure class view work?

6. How are churches and ornate buildings related to conspicuous waste?

7. How are the different social classes distinguished?

8. How are lawns and public grounds evidence of pecuniary beauty?

9. What do a man's possessions say about the man?

10. What do expensive clothes say about a person?

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