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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Negation and Consumption within Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?
(a) Money.
(b) Technology.
(c) Learning.
(d) Writing.

2. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-wealth.
(b) Pseudo-cities.
(c) Pseudo-culture.
(d) Pseudo-countryside.

3. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.
(a) Valued.
(b) Devalued.
(c) Qualified.
(d) Quantified.

4. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Playful.
(c) Boring.
(d) Useless.

5. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.
(a) Folly.
(b) Power.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Hope.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?

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

3. What is strictly a secondary consideration of time by the modern production system in Chapter 6?

4. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

5. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

(see the answer key)

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