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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?

3. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?

4. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

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

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

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

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

6. How does Debord describe fascism?

7. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?

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

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

10. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the purpose of The Society of the Spectacle? What is the greater truth that Debord illustrates?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss Debord's dual interpretations of time and how time operates within the spectacle.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss both the narrative tone and structure of The Society of the Spectacle and their impact on the reader's experience.

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