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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Veblen describe sports?

2. What, according to Veblen, has shaped women's experiences?

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

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

5. Which stage of culture does the antepredatory variant correlate to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Veblen describe the situation of modern women, the women of his time?

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

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

4. How are organizations organized around devout observances?

5. How do institutions change?

6. How does Veblen describe devout observances?

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

8. How does education form the leisure class?

9. What are the effects of devout observances?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Are members of the leisure class the pacesetters and leaders of a culture, or are they the most conservative members, slowest to change and adapt to new cultural conditions?

Essay Topic 2

Who believes in the unseen hand, and how do people who believe in the unseen hand differ from those who do not?

Essay Topic 3

Why does society need to have its industrial efficiency reduced through devout observances and the belief in unseen hands? What would happen if society accelerated toward efficiency? What does reducing efficiency allow for a leisure class? What does it offer for the other classes?

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