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

2. Under what conditions is there a quasi-peaceful stage in Western culture, according to Veblen?
(a) When the draft is ended.
(b) When status is the dominant feature of life.
(c) When technology makes life easier.
(d) When money becomes the measure of social status.

3. Why, according to Veblen, were women excluded from education?
(a) They were independent.
(b) They were subservient.
(c) They were unprepared.
(d) They were distracting.

4. What is education's relationship with the supernatural, according to Veblen?
(a) Education proves the correctness of church doctrine.
(b) Education gives people knowledge for their devout observances.
(c) Education allows people to live by reason instead of superstition.
(d) Education provides the agents of growth and individual development that prove the doctrine of divine grace.

5. According to Veblen, new selections of the fittest are driven by changes in what?
(a) Fashions.
(b) Habits.
(c) Institutions.
(d) Ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Veblen mean by the terms "social inertia" and "conservatism"?

2. What does Veblen consider education to be?

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

4. How does Veblen describe sports?

5. What force does Veblen say drives change in the leisure class?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Veblen describe the gambling temperament?

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

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

6. What are the effects of devout observances?

7. How does Veblen describe devout observances?

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

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

10. How do sports relate to the fighting spirit?

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