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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Negation and Consumption within Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Economic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Political.

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

4. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?
(a) Economic imperative.
(b) Political power.
(c) Historical life.
(d) Spectacular society.

5. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Time.
(c) Hope.
(d) Alienation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.

2. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

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

4. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

5. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

(see the answer key)

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