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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 consider education to be?
(a) A form of conspicuous consumption.
(b) A form of vicarious leisure.
(c) A form of pecuniary waste.
(d) A form of vicarious consumption.

2. How does Veblen say people can move from the industrial class to the leisure class?
(a) Marriage.
(b) One cannot move into the leisure class.
(c) Pecuniary employments.
(d) Conspicuous waste.

3. What does Veblen mean by the terms "social inertia" and "conservatism"?
(a) Institutions will always change faster than individuals.
(b) Man will cling to his habits until he is forced to change.
(c) Man will always imagine that returning to the past is possible.
(d) Man will forever idealize the past.

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

5. According to Veblen, how do men's attitudes change as they acquire more and more pecuniary interest in their work?
(a) They become more ashamed of it.
(b) They take more pride in it.
(c) They begin to give more to charity.
(d) They begin to spend more time with their families.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what activity do delinquents rival the leisure class?

2. Selective adaptation governs what?

3. Under what heading does Veblen put sports and fighting and other manifestations of the predatory temperament?

4. What, in Veblen's description, does education accomplish?

5. What does the belief in luck accompany?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are organizations organized around devout observances?

2. How does one move from the industrial class to the leisure class?

3. How do the devout observances of the clergy have their cultural-economic effect?

4. How do men change over time according to Veblen?

5. How does Veblen describe devout observances?

6. What temperament does Veblen say characterizes the leisure class, and how does the leisure class change?

7. How are industries ranked?

8. What is martial spirit, and which classes demonstrate it?

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

10. What traits in men are required for the success of a community, in Veblen's description?

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