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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 commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Quantitative.
(d) Objective.

2. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Human geography.
(b) Religious power.
(c) Education imperatives.
(d) Political systems.

3. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Citizen.
(b) Consumer.
(c) Voter.
(d) Producer.

4. What religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Hinduism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Mythology

5. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Allegiance.
(c) Faith.
(d) Wisdom.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.

2. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?

3. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?

4. Critical theory has to be communicated in the language of __________ in Chapter 8.

5. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?

(see the answer key)

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