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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Time and History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Pedagogical.
(b) Mythological.
(c) Logical.
(d) Ontological.

2. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Military and Peaceful.
(c) Theoretical and Established.
(d) Scientific and Historical.

3. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Guild.
(b) Feudal lord.
(c) Political power.
(d) King.

4. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Family.
(b) Rules.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Governments.

5. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Family.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Totality.
(d) Future.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

2. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

3. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.

4. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

5. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?

(see the answer key)

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