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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. Production was initially a means of what?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Survival.
(d) Surplus.

2. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?
(a) Quality.
(b) Reason.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Quantity.

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

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

5. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?
(a) The top.
(b) The periphery.
(c) The bottom.
(d) The center.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?

2. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?

3. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

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

5. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.

(see the answer key)

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