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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. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Limitless artificiality.
(c) Desire.
(d) Limited reality.

2. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?
(a) Education.
(b) Religion.
(c) Division.
(d) Unification.

3. Who is representative of a person leaving cyclical time in Chapter 5?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Bourgeoisie.
(c) Pilgrim.
(d) Royalty.

4. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old enemy.
(b) Statesman.
(c) Sorcerer.
(d) Old friend.

5. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Fear.
(b) Separation.
(c) Unity.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.

2. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

3. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

5. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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