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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 is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Rules.
(b) Family.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Governments.

2. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Power.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Freedom.

3. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?
(a) Global unity.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Global domination.
(d) Freedom.

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

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Facism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?

2. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?

3. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

4. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.

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

(see the answer key)

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