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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Veblen say happens to those who can afford not to work?
(a) They volunteer.
(b) They help take care of the children and elders.
(c) They engage in conspicuous leisure.
(d) They work at the most necessary jobs.

3. What happens when a community develops a standard of wealth?
(a) Anything beyond that level becomes meritorious.
(b) Anything below that level becomes objectionable.
(c) Society persecutes those below that level.
(d) Society bands together to care for those below that level.

4. Private ownership led to what cultural development?
(a) Competition for goods.
(b) War.
(c) Dueling.
(d) Jealousy and murders.

5. What incentive does Veblen say results from the desire to own property?
(a) The incentive to marry.
(b) The incentive to fight over property.
(c) The incentive to have children.
(d) The incentive to work.

Short Answer Questions

1. What employments did upper-class people in Iceland and Polynesia work in?

2. How does Veblen define leisure?

3. What allowed a leisure class to emerge?

4. What does Veblen say was lacking in primitive culture?

5. What did men use to display their exploits during the earliest forms of ownership?

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