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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. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?
(a) Counselor.
(b) Emissary.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Lifeguard.

2. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?
(a) Historic.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Innovative.
(d) Philosophic.

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

4. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Fame.
(b) Production.
(c) Power.
(d) Fanatics.

5. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalistic domination.
(c) Political economy.
(d) Facism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?

2. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

3. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?

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

5. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

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