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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Russia, the Communist party takeover happened under _________.
(a) Marx.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Lenin.

3. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?
(a) A wachenburg.
(b) A schnell.
(c) A weltanschauung.
(d) A schneidel.

4. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Facism.

5. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?
(a) Khrushchev.
(b) Lenin.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Eisenhower.

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. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.

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

4. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?

5. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?

(see the answer key)

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