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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 are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Military and Peaceful.
(c) Scientific and Historical.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

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

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

4. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Naive.
(b) Old.
(c) Wise.
(d) Young.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

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

3. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?

4. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?

5. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?

(see the answer key)

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