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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. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?
(a) Playful.
(b) Useless.
(c) Powerful.
(d) Boring.

2. What is modern society's obsession with time, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Using it.
(b) Creating it.
(c) Inventing it.
(d) Saving it.

3. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Chinese.
(b) European.
(c) Russian.
(d) American.

4. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Quantity.
(c) Reason.
(d) Quality.

5. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Useless.
(b) Historic.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Consumable.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.

2. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?

3. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?

4. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.

5. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

(see the answer key)

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