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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. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Automation.
(b) Annihilation.
(c) Negotiation.
(d) Negation.

2. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Quality.
(c) Reason.
(d) Quantity.

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

4. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?
(a) Ancient Greece.
(b) Medieval period.
(c) Ancient Rome.
(d) Modern Russia.

5. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Feudal lord.
(b) King.
(c) Guild.
(d) Political power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?

2. Production was initially a means of what?

3. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?

4. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?

5. What religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?

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