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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 power.
(b) In terms of their morals.
(c) In terms of their wealth.
(d) In terms of their noble lineage.

2. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?
(a) Men can endure greater strains.
(b) Men are more aggressive.
(c) Women are more empathetic.
(d) Women can contain men's emotions.

3. Vicarious leisure results in what?
(a) Competition among owners.
(b) Competition among servant classes.
(c) Distinctions among servant classes.
(d) Greater employment.

4. What stage of culture contained the institution of the leisure class?
(a) High stages of barbarian culture.
(b) Late stages of hunting culture.
(c) Early stages of agricultural culture.
(d) Late stages of agricultural culture.

5. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) The goal of a good life had to involve hard work.
(b) Subsistence could be obtained without the entire community.
(c) Community standards of decency had to be fairly loose.
(d) The entire community had to be involved in earning subsistence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do silver spoons have that machine-made spoons do not?

2. How does Veblen define conspicuous consumption?

3. What does Veblen say causes an item of clothing to be seen as inferior?

4. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?

5. What happens when men come into wealth through peaceful means?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do expensive clothes say about a person?

2. How does the leisure class view work?

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

4. What was the earliest form of ownership?

5. How does wealth stratify society?

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

7. What is emulation, and how does it function in society?

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

9. How are the different social classes distinguished?

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

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