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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. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Education.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Production.

2. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.
(a) Representations.
(b) Idols.
(c) Death.
(d) Folly.

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

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

5. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?
(a) Organization.
(b) Longevity.
(c) Military.
(d) Production.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?

2. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

3. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

4. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

5. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

(see the answer key)

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