The Society of the Spectacle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Society of the Spectacle Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Fanatics.
(b) Fame.
(c) Production.
(d) Power.

2. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Colonization of social life.
(b) Isolation of humanity.
(c) Negation of humanity.
(d) Insubordination of social life.

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

4. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Learning.
(b) Respecting.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Loving.

5. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Scientific and Historical.
(b) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(c) Theoretical and Established.
(d) Military and Peaceful.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?

2. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

3. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

4. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

5. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.

(see the answer key)

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