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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 the act of worshiping appeals to?
(a) The need to be dominated.
(b) The desire for order.
(c) The sense of status.
(d) The sense of communal devotion.

2. What does Veblen say happens to the anthropomorphic cult as time goes by?
(a) It evolves into democracy.
(b) It becomes rigid.
(c) It disintegrates.
(d) It loses adherents.

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

4. Where did the predatory variant come from?
(a) Evolution from the peaceable culture.
(b) Adaptation from the predatory culture.
(c) Inversion of the antepredatory culture.
(d) Evolution from the antepredatory culture.

5. To what does Veblen say that education is similar?
(a) Warfare.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Devotional practice.
(d) Mercantilism.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Veblen mean by exoteric knowledge?

4. What is it that Veblen says survives as society changes?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What are the effects of devout observances?

7. How are organizations organized around devout observances?

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

9. How do institutions change?

10. How does education form the leisure class?

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