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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Industrial Exemption and Conservatism.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What are signs of vicarious consumption?
(a) Costume and dress of servants.
(b) Making loans to workers.
(c) Volunteering among the poor.
(d) Open air markets for servants.
2. What does Veblen say emulation leads to?
(a) Conspicuous consumption.
(b) Conspicuous servitude.
(c) Conspicuous waste.
(d) Conspicuous produciton.
3. What does Veblen say causes an item of clothing to be seen as inferior?
(a) If it is widely available.
(b) If it is cheap.
(c) If it is gaudy.
(d) If it is easy to manufacture.
4. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?
(a) Objects with high exchange value.
(b) Necessities.
(c) Objects with high utility value.
(d) Luxuries.
5. What kind of leisure is created by inheritance?
(a) Marginal leisure.
(b) Super-leisure.
(c) Obligatory leisure.
(d) Vicarious leisure.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Veblen mean by the terms "social inertia" and "conservatism"?
2. How does a man of leisure indicate his position in society?
3. How does Veblen say members of a society are ranked and judged?
4. How does Veblen explain the change of fashion from year to year?
5. What distinction begins to be drawn as the group around the patron grows?
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