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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. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Feudal lord.
(b) Political power.
(c) Guild.
(d) King.

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

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

4. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
(a) Socialistic obscurity.
(b) World transformation.
(c) Communist revolution.
(d) Capitalistic domination.

5. What is strictly a secondary consideration of time by the modern production system in Chapter 6?
(a) Historical element.
(b) Mechanical element.
(c) Organic element.
(d) Biological element.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

2. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.

3. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

4. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?

5. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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