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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. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?
(a) Gradual process.
(b) Political campaign.
(c) Totalitarian authority.
(d) Military coup.

2. Cyclical time is rooted in what kind of labor in Chapter 5?
(a) Military.
(b) Agriculture.
(c) Production.
(d) Political.

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

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

5. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.
(a) Truth.
(b) Triumph.
(c) Perception.
(d) Pinnacle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

2. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

3. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.

4. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.

5. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?

(see the answer key)

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