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

2. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Dictator
(b) Communist.
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Socialist.

3. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Familiarity.

4. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Id commodity.
(b) Quo commodity.
(c) Il commodity.
(d) Qua commodity.

5. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?
(a) Ancient Rome.
(b) Modern Russia.
(c) Ancient Greece.
(d) Medieval period.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?

2. Debord saw Hegel's role as one of a _____________.

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

4. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

5. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

(see the answer key)

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