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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 the belief in luck accompany?
(a) Development of status.
(b) Resistance to industrialism.
(c) Belief in immortality.
(d) Loss of faith in religion.

2. What does Veblen say is the purpose of devout observances?
(a) To capture some of the spoils of exploitation in the church.
(b) To give time for reflection, reconsideration, and invention.
(c) To lower the economic efficiency of a community.
(d) To motivate the community to greater efficiency.

3. Which stage of culture does the antepredatory variant correlate to?
(a) Early townsfolk.
(b) The ancestors of the primitive savage stage.
(c) Primitive savages.
(d) Settled agricultural savages.

4. When, according to Veblen, does the leisure class change most?
(a) When there are conflicts abroad but not at home.
(b) When the economy is adapting to changes.
(c) When there are no wars.
(d) When the question of succession to the throne or presidency is at issue.

5. Where does Veblen say gambling originated?
(a) He says it originated in predatory culture.
(b) He says it originated in sports.
(c) He says it is an archaic activity.
(d) He says it originated in peaceable culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What changes as a result of a change in institutions?

2. What does Veblen call learning?

3. Who benefits by a scholar's work?

4. Where did the predatory variant come from?

5. According to Veblen, ethnic types during his time were variations of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are industries ranked?

2. How do the leisure classes change over time?

3. How do institutions change?

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

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

6. How does Veblen describe the gambling temperament?

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

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

9. How does the study of the classics and classical languages change over time?

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

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