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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. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Overcome.
(b) Transcend.
(c) Validate.
(d) Rationalize.

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

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

4. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?
(a) Military coup.
(b) Gradual process.
(c) Totalitarian authority.
(d) Political campaign.

5. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Religious.
(b) Economic.
(c) Political.
(d) Scientific.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

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

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

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

5. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

(see the answer key)

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