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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 believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Wealth.
(b) Governments.
(c) Family.
(d) Rules.

2. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Loss of history.
(b) Abolition of classes.
(c) Loss of self.
(d) Devalue of time.

3. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Useful.
(c) Necessary.
(d) Precious.

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

5. What does Debord believe is the star commodity in the society of the spectacle?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Technology.
(c) Culture.
(d) Media.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

2. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?

3. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

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

5. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.

(see the answer key)

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