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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 the commodity excludes?
(a) Quantity.
(b) Reason.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Quality.

2. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?
(a) Politics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Economics.
(d) Philosophy.

3. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Fear.
(b) Unity.
(c) Separation.
(d) Hope.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

2. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.

3. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

4. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?

5. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

(see the answer key)

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