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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Commodity as Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Disappointment.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Revelation.

2. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Education.
(b) Death.
(c) Production.
(d) Life.

3. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.
(a) Death.
(b) Folly.
(c) Idols.
(d) Representations.

4. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Familiarity.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Avoidance.

5. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Bondage.
(d) Proletarianization.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?

2. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

3. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

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

5. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

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