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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Spectacular Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Pedagogical.
(b) Logical.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Mythological.

2. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.
(a) Qualified.
(b) Valued.
(c) Quantified.
(d) Devalued.

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

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

5. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old friend.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Old enemy.
(d) Statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?

2. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?

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

4. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

5. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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