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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. Which philosopher is referred to in thesis 206?
(a) Plato.
(b) Kierkegaard.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Voltaire.

2. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Shirts.
(b) Automobiles.
(c) Keychains.
(d) Washers.

3. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?
(a) Need.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Technology.
(d) Desire.

4. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Totality.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Future.
(d) Family.

5. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Embrace.
(b) Ignore.
(c) Synthesize.
(d) Abolish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?

2. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

3. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?

4. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

5. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

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