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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Violence.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Unity.
(d) Freedom.

2. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?
(a) Emptiness.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Global unity.
(d) Global domination.

3. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?
(a) Military coup.
(b) Totalitarian authority.
(c) Political campaign.
(d) Gradual process.

4. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.
(a) Clarify.
(b) Mediate.
(c) Distort.
(d) Represent.

5. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Family.
(b) Governments.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Rules.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

2. Which of the senses does Debord believe the spectacle can manipulate the most?

3. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.

4. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

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

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