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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 is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Negation.
(b) Annihilation.
(c) Negotiation.
(d) Automation.

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

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

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

5. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?
(a) Political system.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Socioeconomic system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

2. Debord says the study of what is not enough to change the spectacle?

3. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?

4. According to Debord, workers exchange production time for what commodity?

5. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?

(see the answer key)

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