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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. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?
(a) Kennedy.
(b) Washington.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Jefferson.

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

3. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Power.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Royalty.

4. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?
(a) Power.
(b) Hope.
(c) Money.
(d) Time.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

2. Culture is defined as what in Chapter 8?

3. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

4. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

5. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

(see the answer key)

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