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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. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?
(a) Political sociology.
(b) Political economy.
(c) Economics.
(d) Astronomy.

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

3. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?
(a) Desire.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Technology.
(d) Need.

4. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Systematic.
(b) Illogical.
(c) Tautological.
(d) Symantic.

5. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?
(a) Imperial domination.
(b) Communism.
(c) Fascist domination.
(d) Royalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.

2. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?

3. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

4. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

5. Cyclical time is rooted in what kind of labor in Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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