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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 was lacking in primitive culture?
(a) Ownership of private property.
(b) A governing class.
(c) The need for drudgery.
(d) A priest class.

2. What are the standards of consumption determined by?
(a) Physical comfort.
(b) Industrial production.
(c) Conspicuous waste and workmanship.
(d) Class mobility.

3. When does Veblen say that a leisure class emerged?
(a) During the transition from agricultural barbarism to urban mercantilism.
(b) During the transition from savage barbarism to agricultural barbarism.
(c) During the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism.
(d) During the transition from mercantilism to early industry.

4. When did the leisure class become part of society?
(a) At the same time ownership did.
(b) At the same time religion did.
(c) At the same time slavery did.
(d) At the same time technology did.

5. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Society persecutes those below that level.
(b) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.
(c) Society bands together to care for those below that level.
(d) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.

Short Answer Questions

1. How must a man of leisure act?

2. What does Veblen say happens to those who need to work but do not work?

3. What distinction does Veblen say emerged between types of labor in cultures that had a leisure class?

4. Vicarious leisure results in what?

5. What does Veblen say the effects of an ownership society are on the behavior of its members?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the clergy demonstrate vicarious leisure?

2. How does the leisure of the leisure class affect the servants?

3. How did primitive societies divide the labor?

4. What status is attributed to scholars?

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

6. How does Veblen define leisure?

7. How have women's clothes demonstrated that the woman does not engage in productive employment?

8. How does the leisure class view work?

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

10. What was the earliest form of ownership?

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