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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. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.
(a) Over-development.
(b) Qualitative development.
(c) Under-development.
(d) Quantitative development.

2. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Learning.
(b) Respecting.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Loving.

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

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

5. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?
(a) The universe.
(b) The stars.
(c) The sun.
(d) The moon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?

3. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

4. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

5. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

(see the answer key)

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