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

2. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Facism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

3. What two poles does Debord believe the history of economy has turned on?
(a) Rulers and subjects.
(b) Town and country.
(c) Rich and poor.
(d) North and south.

4. What science did the Utopians take as their model?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Anthropology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Astrology.

5. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?
(a) Wisdom.
(b) Faith.
(c) Apathy.
(d) Allegiance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

2. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

3. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.

4. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

5. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?

(see the answer key)

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