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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Pecuniary Standard of Living.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?
(a) Competition for resources.
(b) An ethic of sharing.
(c) A predatory nature in the community.
(d) Representative government.

2. What consumption articles does Veblen state that the consumer hangs on to the most?
(a) Necessities.
(b) Luxuries.
(c) Objects with high utility value.
(d) Objects with high exchange value.

3. What distinction does Veblen say separates men and women?
(a) Men are more aggressive.
(b) Women are more empathetic.
(c) Women can contain men's emotions.
(d) Men can endure greater strains.

4. What force does Veblen say shapes the standard of living?
(a) Physical hunger.
(b) The predatory animus.
(c) The industrial lifestyle.
(d) Human guilt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does a man of leisure indicate his position in society?

2. Who engages in vicarious consumption?

3. What does Veblen say happens as technology progresses?

4. What is reserved for the leisure class?

5. What aspect of culture was a condition for the development of a leisure class?

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