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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, The Organization of Territory.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Violence.
(b) Unity.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Antagonism.

2. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?
(a) Economic imperative.
(b) Historical life.
(c) Spectacular society.
(d) Political power.

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?
(a) Unity.
(b) Violence.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Freedom.

4. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-cities.
(b) Pseudo-countryside.
(c) Pseudo-culture.
(d) Pseudo-wealth.

5. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Dictator
(b) Bourgeois.
(c) Communist.
(d) Socialist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?

2. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?

3. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?

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

5. What era does Debord say was obsessed with death?

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