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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. In what activity do delinquents rival the leisure class?
(a) Unproductive leisure.
(b) Fighting.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Production.

2. What is the state of the institution with regard to the present moment?
(a) It is never fully caught up to the present.
(b) It represents a snapshot of the present moment.
(c) It predicts how people will behave in the future.
(d) It transcends the present moment.

3. What does Veblen see as evidence of the martial spirit in the leisure class?
(a) Lawsuits.
(b) Competitive business practices.
(c) Monopolies.
(d) Dueling.

4. To which group does the selection process seem to apply least?
(a) Antepredatory variants.
(b) Predatory types.
(c) Ethnic types.
(d) Peaceable types.

5. What does Veblen say is the reason for gambling?
(a) A belief in luck.
(b) Distrust in the economic system.
(c) Longing for riches.
(d) Failure to be convinced of the value of labor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What doctrine does education contribute to, in Veblen's opinion?

2. What form does Veblen say the pressure to change takes?

3. To what agency does Veblen attribute industrial man's faith in luck?

4. According to Veblen, there is a natural selection among what?

5. How does Veblen describe charitable organizations?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What are the ethnic types Veblen defines, and how does he describe them?

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

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

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

6. Which classes duel? Which classes fight?

7. How do institutions change?

8. How are leisure-class women like members of the clergy?

9. How does Veblen describe the gambling temperament?

10. How do lower-class delinquents manifest the fighting spirit?

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