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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. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?
(a) Production.
(b) Humantiy.
(c) Social interaction.
(d) Labor sold.

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

3. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Fascism.

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

5. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Power.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.

3. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

4. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?

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

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