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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Spectacular Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Familiarity.
(d) Avoidance.

2. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Hoping.
(c) Living.
(d) Believing.

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

4. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Automation.
(b) Negotiation.
(c) Negation.
(d) Annihilation.

5. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Systematic.
(b) Tautological.
(c) Symantic.
(d) Illogical.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?

2. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?

3. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

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

5. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

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