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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. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.
(a) Quantified.
(b) Devalued.
(c) Valued.
(d) Qualified.

2. What does Ruge doubt he will see in his lifetime?
(a) Bourgeoisie power.
(b) Political revolution.
(c) Production equlity.
(d) Society of the spectacle.

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

4. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
(a) Marx.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Debord.
(d) Machiavelli.

5. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Historic.
(b) Consumable.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Useless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?

2. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?

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

4. According to thesis 165, the power to __________ is what has battered down the walls between physical places in society.

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

(see the answer key)

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