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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 are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Scientific and Historical.
(c) Theoretical and Established.
(d) Military and Peaceful.

2. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Respecting.
(c) Learning.
(d) Loving.

3. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?
(a) Life insurance.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Cremations.
(d) Cryogenics.

4. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Synthesize.
(b) Embrace.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Abolish.

5. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?
(a) America.
(b) Greece.
(c) Rome.
(d) England.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

2. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

3. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?

4. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?

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

(see the answer key)

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