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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conspicuous Consumption.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is reserved for the leisure class?
(a) Possession of slaves.
(b) Luxuries like jewelry.
(c) Travel.
(d) Owning property.

2. What does Veblen say about the upper classes in Iceland and Polynesia?
(a) That they were barred from physical labor.
(b) That they offered their vassals' labor to the priests.
(c) That they invested the capital and give laborers the means of production.
(d) That they worked alongside the rest.

3. What does Veblen say a person's possessions determine in ownership societies?
(a) Status.
(b) Profession.
(c) Class.
(d) Virtue.

4. What classes does Veblen describe emerging as society developed?
(a) Proletariat and bourgeoisie.
(b) Blue-collar and white-collar classes.
(c) Workers and parasites.
(d) Industrial and nonindustrial classes.

5. What does Veblen say possessions indicate in an ownership society?
(a) The fame of the possessor.
(b) The nobility of the possessor.
(c) The virtue of the possessor.
(d) The power of the possessor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who engages in vicarious consumption?

2. What does Veblen say happens as technology progresses?

3. According to Veblen, property became a prerequisite for what?

4. When did the leisure class become part of society?

5. Which occupation would the leisure class have worked as?

(see the answer key)

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