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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. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?
(a) Separation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hope.
(d) Unity.

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

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

4. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Hoping.
(c) Living.
(d) Believing.

5. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Falsehood.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Disappointment.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.

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

4. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

5. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

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