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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Unity and Division within Appearance.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Shirts.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Keychains.
(d) Washers.

3. Production was initially a means of what?
(a) Survival.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Surplus.
(d) Luxury.

4. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Culture.
(b) Contemplation.
(c) Control.
(d) Power.

5. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Bourgeois.
(b) Communist.
(c) Dictator
(d) Socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?

2. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

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

4. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

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