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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. 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. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Prudence.
(b) Hegemony.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Duplicity.

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?
(a) Violence.
(b) Unity.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Freedom.

4. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Revelation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

2. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

3. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

4. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

5. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?

(see the answer key)

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