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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 does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Rules.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Family.
(d) Governments.

2. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Learning.
(b) Loving.
(c) Respecting.
(d) Dreaming.

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

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

5. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Augmented survival.
(b) Survival supplemented.
(c) Super-survival.
(d) Survival negated.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?

4. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?

5. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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