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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. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) Leisure.
(b) Production.
(c) History.
(d) Labor.

2. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?
(a) Shopping centers.
(b) Schools.
(c) Churches.
(d) Governments.

3. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Illusion.
(c) Meaning.
(d) Truth.

4. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Power.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

2. What period does Debord consider to be the beginning of Art?

3. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?

4. In spectacular society, ___________ of time gives way to real time, according to Chapter 6.

5. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?

2. What is Debord's view on the progression of art?

3. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?

4. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?

5. What is culture, according to Debord?

6. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?

7. How does Debord describe fascism?

8. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?

9. Where does the individual stand in historic time, according to Chapter 6?

10. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?

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