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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Hegemony.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Prudence.

2. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Illogical.
(b) Symantic.
(c) Tautological.
(d) Systematic.

3. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?
(a) The sun.
(b) The stars.
(c) The universe.
(d) The moon.

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

5. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Leisure.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Time.
(d) Productivity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?

2. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?

3. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What becomes the only economic necessity as social labor grows in Chapter 2?

2. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

3. What is the spectrum of the spectacle that Debord describes?

4. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?

5. What does Debord mean when he says the spectacle is "the sun that never sets..." in thesis 13?

6. What are the paradoxes of the spectacle, as described at the end of Chapter 3?

7. How has the commodity turned the whole planet into a single world market, according to Debord?

8. What does Debord see as the difference between Marx and Hegel?

9. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

10. How has the spectacle evolved from a state of being to a state of appearing, according to Debord?

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