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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ideology Materialized.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What period does Debord consider to be the beginning of Art?
(a) Baroque.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Minimalism.
(d) Dadaism.

2. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Progress.
(b) Originality.
(c) Research.
(d) Plagiarism.

3. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.
(a) Hercules.
(b) Daedeus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Ilium.

4. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?
(a) Agnostic.
(b) Monotheistic.
(c) Aetheistic.
(d) Polytheistic.

5. What does Debord say planned environments have created?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Classless society.
(c) Artificial peasantry.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?

2. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?

3. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?

4. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?

5. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

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