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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. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Overcome.
(b) Rationalize.
(c) Validate.
(d) Transcend.

2. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Fear.
(b) Unity.
(c) Separation.
(d) Hope.

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

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

5. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A foe.
(b) A social relationship.
(c) A monster.
(d) A political system.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?

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

3. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

4. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

5. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

(see the answer key)

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