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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. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Socialist.
(b) Communist.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Dictator

2. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Consumption.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Satisfaction.

3. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Washers.
(b) Keychains.
(c) Shirts.
(d) Automobiles.

4. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Limitless artificiality.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Desire.
(d) Limited reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

2. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

3. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

4. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

5. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?

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