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

2. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Education.
(c) Unification.
(d) Division.

3. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Need.
(b) Hope.
(c) Time.
(d) Capital.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

2. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

3. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

4. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

5. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

(see the answer key)

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