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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 does Debord say every Chinese person must study?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Confucius.
(c) Mao.
(d) Marx.

2. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Need.
(c) Dissatisfaction.
(d) Desire.

3. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Wise.
(b) Young.
(c) Old.
(d) Naive.

4. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?
(a) Dictatorship.
(b) Socioeconomic system.
(c) Political system.
(d) Democracy.

5. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Family.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Future.
(d) Totality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?

2. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

3. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.

4. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, 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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