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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. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Hope.
(c) Productivity.
(d) Time.

2. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Similarity.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Familiarity.

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

4. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Media stars.
(b) Workers.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Presidents.

5. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Quo commodity.
(b) Qua commodity.
(c) Il commodity.
(d) Id commodity.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?

3. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

4. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.

5. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.

(see the answer key)

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