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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Unity and Division within Appearance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.
(a) Folly.
(b) Hope.
(c) Weakness.
(d) Power.

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

3. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?
(a) Political sociology.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Political economy.
(d) Economics.

4. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Young.
(b) Naive.
(c) Old.
(d) Wise.

5. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Violence.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Unity.
(d) Antagonism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

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

3. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.

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

5. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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