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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 year did Marx's revolution fail?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1848.

2. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?
(a) Political power.
(b) Economic imperative.
(c) Revolutionary thought.
(d) Spectacular society.

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

4. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
(a) Communist revolution.
(b) Socialistic obscurity.
(c) World transformation.
(d) Capitalistic domination.

5. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Military and Peaceful.
(b) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(c) Scientific and Historical.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

Short Answer Questions

1. Production was initially a means of what?

2. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?

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

4. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

5. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

(see the answer key)

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