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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. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?
(a) Socioeconomic system.
(b) Democracy.
(c) Political system.
(d) Dictatorship.

2. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Ruge.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Lukacs.
(d) Feuerbach.

3. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?
(a) The top.
(b) The bottom.
(c) The periphery.
(d) The center.

4. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Power.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Consumption.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Production was initially a means of what?

2. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?

3. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

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

5. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?

(see the answer key)

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