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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 is the most serious occupation of the leisure class?
(a) Distribution.
(b) Production.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Government.

2. What doctrine does education contribute to, in Veblen's opinion?
(a) The doctrine os nonaggression.
(b) The doctrine of laissez-faire government.
(c) The doctrine of peace through prosperity.
(d) The doctrine of pecuniary merit.

3. What two classes does Veblen distinguish between?
(a) Consumption and waste classes.
(b) Production and distribution classes.
(c) Aesthetic and industrial classes.
(d) Acquisition and production classes.

4. How does a belief in luck have an effect on efficiency?
(a) It is a deviation from matter-of-fact sequences.
(b) It shifts people's attention to nonmaterial forces.
(c) It consumes time in speculation.
(d) It fills people with idle hopes.

5. Under what conditions does Veblen say that members of the industrial class will fight?
(a) He says they will fight for almost any reason.
(b) When they want to settle a score.
(c) When someone's honor has been insulted.
(d) When they are angry or drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does Veblen say gambling has on industrial efficiency?

2. How does Veblen say contestants in sporting events demonstrate their belief in luck?

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

4. What is it that forces the resistant social classes to adapt to new conditions?

5. What does Veblen say was the center of modern communities during his time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the effects of devout observances?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do institutions change?

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

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