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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. Where does Veblen say scholars fit in the social spectrum?
(a) They are valued for their high level of expenditures on conspicuous items.
(b) They are looked down upon for their lower earnings.
(c) They are looked up to for their vicarious consumption of cultural production.
(d) They are looked up to for their production of cultural materials.

2. What does consumption yield to the individual?
(a) Reputation.
(b) Status.
(c) Utility.
(d) Wealth.

3. Who performs the most vicarious consumption, according to Veblen?
(a) Children.
(b) The wage earner.
(c) Servants.
(d) The women of the household.

4. What does Veblen say an ownership society motivates people to do?
(a) Work hard.
(b) Conquer other people.
(c) Steal.
(d) Keep money within the family.

5. Which aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) Representative government.
(b) Competition for resources.
(c) A predatory nature in the community.
(d) An ethic of sharing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when people attain a certain level of consumption?

2. What factors drove the emergence of the leisure class?

3. What does Veblen say makes wealth desirable?

4. What allowed a leisure class to emerge?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What status is attributed to scholars?

2. What is the relationship between the necessities of life and an individual's standard of living?

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

4. How does wealth stratify society?

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

6. How are habits formed?

7. How did primitive societies divide the labor?

8. How does Veblen define leisure?

9. How does the labor class view its work?

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

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