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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. What does Veblen say is the purpose of devout observances?

2. Which holiday does Veblen cite as an example of holidays being vicarious leisure?

3. Why, according to Veblen, were women excluded from education?

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

5. How does Veblen say people can move from the industrial class to the leisure class?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the effects of devout observances?

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

3. How does education form the leisure class?

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

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

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

7. How do sports demonstrate belief in luck, or semireligious sentiment?

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

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

10. Which classes duel? Which classes fight?

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

Can leisure be said to be a form of labor itself? Is the leisure class obligated to perform its conspicuous leisure and conspicuous consumption? Is it work? If not, why not?

Essay Topic 3

Which is mor important to the leisure class, conformity or individuality? Is the leisure class selfish or clannish? Or is selfishness a form of class cohesion?

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