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

2. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Control.
(b) Culture.
(c) Power.
(d) Contemplation.

3. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Quantitative.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Subjective.
(d) Objective.

4. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Colonization of social life.
(b) Negation of humanity.
(c) Isolation of humanity.
(d) Insubordination of social life.

5. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?
(a) Washington.
(b) Kennedy.
(c) Jefferson.
(d) Lincoln.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?

2. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?

3. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?

4. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

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

(see the answer key)

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