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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) Family.
(b) Governments.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Rules.

2. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) World.
(b) Opium.
(c) Consumer.
(d) Theoretical.

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

4. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.
(a) Mediate.
(b) Distort.
(c) Represent.
(d) Clarify.

5. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old enemy.
(b) Old friend.
(c) Sorcerer.
(d) Statesman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

2. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.

3. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.

4. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

5. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

(see the answer key)

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