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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. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.
(a) Mediate.
(b) Distort.
(c) Represent.
(d) Clarify.

2. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-wealth.
(b) Pseudo-culture.
(c) Pseudo-cities.
(d) Pseudo-countryside.

3. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Violence.
(d) Unity.

4. The creation of the pseudo community goes right into the heart of the _______ in Chapter 7.
(a) Political wealth.
(b) Family cell.
(c) Religious power.
(d) Urban center.

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Communism.
(b) Facism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Capitalism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?

2. In Russia, the Communist party takeover happened under _________.

3. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?

4. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

5. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?

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