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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Time and History.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A social relationship.
(b) A political system.
(c) A foe.
(d) A monster.

2. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?
(a) In a consumer's home.
(b) In a consumer's imagination.
(c) In the spectacle's light.
(d) In the harsh light of reality.

3. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Control.
(b) Culture.
(c) Power.
(d) Contemplation.

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

5. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?
(a) Facism.
(b) Capitalistic domination.
(c) Political economy.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

2. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

3. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?

4. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.

5. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?

(see the answer key)

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