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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. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Rationalize.
(b) Overcome.
(c) Transcend.
(d) Validate.

2. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Lukacs.
(b) Feuerbach.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Ruge.

3. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Mirror.
(b) Plague.
(c) Lake.
(d) Train.

4. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Unity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Separation.
(d) Fear.

5. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Illogical.
(b) Tautological.
(c) Symantic.
(d) Systematic.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

3. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?

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

5. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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