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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. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Time.
(b) Hope.
(c) Capital.
(d) Need.

2. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) World.
(b) Theoretical.
(c) Opium.
(d) Consumer.

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

4. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?
(a) Unity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Fear.
(d) Separation.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old friend.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Statesman.
(d) Old enemy.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?

4. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

5. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

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