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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. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Il commodity.
(b) Qua commodity.
(c) Id commodity.
(d) Quo commodity.

2. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Opium.
(c) Consumer.
(d) World.

3. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?
(a) Diplomat.
(b) Counselor.
(c) Emissary.
(d) Lifeguard.

4. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Fake gratification.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Desire.
(d) True atonomy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

2. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

3. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

4. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?

5. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?

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