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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Savage Society of Thorstein Veblen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Malthus continued to work on his theory of population and the food supply and assumed that humans could double their number every _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Fifty Years.
(b) Thirty-five years.
(c) Twenty-five years.
(d) Twenty years.

2. During the Victorian period, economics became the province of __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Politicians.
(b) Landowners.
(c) Lawyers.
(d) Professors.

3. Veblen attacked the rich as he looked for what he called the __________. (fill in the blank)
(a) Greedy man.
(b) Honest man.
(c) Economic man.
(d) Earnest man.

4. Saint-Simone was a firm believer in _________. (fill in the blank)
(a) The Law of Accumulation.
(b) Physiocracy.
(c) Laissez-faire.
(d) Democracy.

5. The Victorian period marked the beginning of what important movement?
(a) American democracy.
(b) Socialism.
(c) Communism.
(d) European imperialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Veblen was fascinated with how society was dominated by __________. (fill in the blank)

2. According to Heilbroner, economists changed the world not through __________, but through power of their ideas. (fill in the blank)

3. According to Mills, there would be a gradual disappearance of what?

4. What was the title of Veblen's first book?

5. The outright fraud used by wealthy Americans was referred to in publications as __________. (fill in the blank)

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