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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Commodity as Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?
(a) Imperial domination.
(b) Communism.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Fascist domination.

2. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Loss of self.
(b) Devalue of time.
(c) Abolition of classes.
(d) Loss of history.

3. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Consumer.
(c) World.
(d) Opium.

4. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Automation.
(b) Negation.
(c) Negotiation.
(d) Annihilation.

5. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Production value.
(b) Perceived value.
(c) Exchange value.
(d) Non-value.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.

2. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?

3. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?

4. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

5. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

(see the answer key)

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