18. Document Projects for Exploring American Histories, Document Project 18: Class and Leisure in the American City

**Quiz for Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)**

Quiz for Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Document 18.5: Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)

Select the best answer for each question. Click the “submit” button for each question to turn in your work.

Question 18.13

1. According to Thorstein Veblen, how did the gentleman of leisure earn reputability at the end of the nineteenth century?

By performing philanthropic endeavors in public

By displaying their consumption of valuable goods

By visiting amusement parks and other commercial entertainment venues

By avoiding performing labor in public settings

Question 18.14

2. Which of the following, according to Thorstein Veblen, might serve as a “tangible display” of a gentleman’s conspicuous leisure?

Furniture that he built himself in his private workshop

A beautiful new mansion

Fancy clothes worn by his wife and children

Hunting trophies he acquired while on safari in Africa

Question 18.15

3. Based on Thorstein Veblen’s theory of conspicuous consumption, one would have been most likely to find a gentleman of leisure in which of the following public places in 1900?

A department store

A nightclub

A private dining club

A library

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