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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 religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Political power.
(b) Guild.
(c) Feudal lord.
(d) King.

2. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?
(a) A weltanschauung.
(b) A schnell.
(c) A schneidel.
(d) A wachenburg.

3. The unification of culture has led to the demise of art and _________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Language.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) History.
(d) Freedom.

4. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Power.
(b) Production.
(c) Fame.
(d) Fanatics.

5. In thesis 173, who is architecture now being specifically created for?
(a) The ruling class.
(b) Governments.
(c) Royalty.
(d) The poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?

2. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?

3. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?

4. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?

5. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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