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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Unity and Division within Appearance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Production value.
(b) Perceived value.
(c) Exchange value.
(d) Non-value.

2. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Producer.
(b) Voter.
(c) Citizen.
(d) Consumer.

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?
(a) Antagonism.
(b) Violence.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Unity.

4. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Train.
(b) Lake.
(c) Plague.
(d) Mirror.

5. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Survival negated.
(b) Augmented survival.
(c) Survival supplemented.
(d) Super-survival.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

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

3. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

4. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.

5. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?

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