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

2. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Ontological.
(b) Logical.
(c) Pedagogical.
(d) Mythological.

3. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Hope.
(c) Time.
(d) Alienation.

4. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Fake gratification.
(b) Desire.
(c) Abundance.
(d) True atonomy.

5. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Culture.
(c) Power.
(d) Control.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.

2. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?

3. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

5. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.

(see the answer key)

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