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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. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Originality.
(c) Research.
(d) Progress.

2. What is a necessary part of an abundant society, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Need.
(b) Waste.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

3. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Alienation.

4. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?
(a) Economic imperative.
(b) Political power.
(c) Spectacular society.
(d) Revolutionary thought.

5. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Plague.
(b) Train.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.

2. The revolution will restore what in terms of travel and place, according to Chapter 7?

3. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

4. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

5. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

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