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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 historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Negation of humanity.
(b) Insubordination of social life.
(c) Isolation of humanity.
(d) Colonization of social life.

2. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?
(a) Agnostic.
(b) Aetheistic.
(c) Monotheistic.
(d) Polytheistic.

3. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?
(a) Organization.
(b) Longevity.
(c) Production.
(d) Military.

4. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) Leisure.
(b) History.
(c) Labor.
(d) Production.

5. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Logical.
(b) Mythological.
(c) Pedagogical.
(d) Ontological.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Production was initially a means of what?

3. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

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

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

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