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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Negation and Consumption within Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The unified critique of culture includes the culture of knowledge and the culture of _____, according to Debord.
(a) Politics.
(b) Art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Literature.

2. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?
(a) Aetheistic.
(b) Agnostic.
(c) Monotheistic.
(d) Polytheistic.

3. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?
(a) Industry.
(b) History.
(c) Politics.
(d) Spectacle.

4. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Power.

5. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) Leisure.
(b) History.
(c) Labor.
(d) Production.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

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

4. What is the pilot product of the first stage of commodity abundance, according to Chapter 7?

5. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

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