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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Ideology Materialized.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Scientific and Historical.
(c) Military and Peaceful.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

2. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?
(a) Historic.
(b) Philosophic.
(c) Innovative.
(d) Scientific.

3. What year did Marx's revolution fail?
(a) 1848.
(b) 1856.
(c) 1863.
(d) 1824.

4. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Synthesize.
(b) Embrace.
(c) Abolish.
(d) Ignore.

5. Who does Debord quote at the beginning of Chapter 9?
(a) Hegel.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Ruge.
(d) Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.

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

3. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?

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

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

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