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

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

3. What does Veblen say is evidence of people's concern with their appearances?
(a) They will follow the fashions, no matter how silly.
(b) They will neglect to protect themselves from the weather.
(c) They will expose as much or as little of themselves as fashion warrants.
(d) They will wear clothing that gets in the way of their work.

4. What is reserved for the leisure class?
(a) Travel.
(b) Possession of slaves.
(c) Luxuries like jewelry.
(d) Owning property.

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) Community standards of decency had to be fairly loose.
(c) Subsistence could be obtained without the entire community.
(d) The entire community had to be involved in earning subsistence.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does consumption yield to the individual?

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

3. What does Veblen say clothing is designed for?

4. What does Veblen say causes the emergence of crimes against property?

5. What principle does Veblen say guides the consumer's habits?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the standard of wealth change over time?

4. How does the labor class view its work?

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

6. How does the clergy demonstrate vicarious leisure?

7. How does style ensure conspicuous waste?

8. How did primitive societies divide the labor?

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

10. How are the different social classes distinguished?

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