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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. According to Veblen, new selections of the fittest are driven by changes in what?
(a) Ideas.
(b) Habits.
(c) Fashions.
(d) Institutions.

2. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?
(a) Savagery.
(b) Disgruntlement.
(c) Exploitation.
(d) Unproductive aggression.

3. Selective adaptation governs what?
(a) The display of wealth.
(b) The fashion from year to year.
(c) Who survives socially.
(d) Who works for whom.

4. Who benefits by a scholar's work?
(a) The scholar's colleagues.
(b) The university system.
(c) The scholar's patron.
(d) The scholar.

5. How does Veblen describe sports?
(a) As decorous recreation.
(b) As vicarious leisure.
(c) As dishonorable waste.
(d) As nonproductive labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Veblen, what are sports based on?

2. According to Veblen, women in the leisure class are partially exempt from what?

3. Which class has the most martial spirit, according to Veblen?

4. To what does Veblen compare the martial spirit in lower-class delinquents?

5. What does Veblen say fighting does for lower-class delinquents?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do sports demonstrate belief in luck, or semireligious sentiment?

2. How does Veblen describe devout observances?

3. How does Veblen describe the difference between esoteric and exoteric knowledge?

4. Where does Veblen believe the desire to gamble originates?

5. How is education similar to the observance of devotional functions and magic?

6. How are industries ranked?

7. How do men and women of the industrial classes feel and react to pecuniary pressures?

8. Which classes duel? Which classes fight?

9. How does Veblen describe the situation of modern women, the women of his time?

10. How do the leisure classes change over time?

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