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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. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.
(a) Power.
(b) Focus.
(c) Will.
(d) Dream.

2. Culture is defined as what in Chapter 8?
(a) Revolution.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) History.
(d) Politics.

3. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Bourgeoisie.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Ancient Romans.
(d) Political kings.

4. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?
(a) Medieval period.
(b) Ancient Greece.
(c) Modern Russia.
(d) Ancient Rome.

5. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Citizen.
(b) Consumer.
(c) Producer.
(d) Voter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

2. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?

3. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.

4. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

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

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