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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 happens as the lower classes are educated and depend on the leisure class?
(a) They become more restless and aggressive.
(b) They become more resigned to their class.
(c) They become more likely to seize the means of production.
(d) They become more dependent on ritual.

2. What is affected by the institution of a social class?
(a) The economic model for society.
(b) The character of individuals.
(c) The means of production.
(d) The character of the social structure.

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

4. What does Veblen mean by esoteric knowledge?
(a) Knowledge that is applied to industry.
(b) Knowledge that has nothing to do with industry.
(c) Knowledge that can be developed in an industrial capacity.
(d) Knowledge that questions the nature of God.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen call learning?

2. What does Veblen consider education to be?

3. Where does Veblen say the leisure class lived during his time?

4. Why do existing institutions foster the propagation of a particular type of person?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the workman manifest his animistic view about luck?

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

5. How do institutions change?

6. How does education form the leisure class?

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

8. What are the effects of devout observances?

9. How does Veblen's book reveal Darwin's influence?

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

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