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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 does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-culture.
(b) Pseudo-wealth.
(c) Pseudo-countryside.
(d) Pseudo-cities.

2. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Desire.
(b) Dissatisfaction.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Need.

3. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.
(a) Fantastical.
(b) Metaphysical.
(c) Quantum.
(d) Mythological.

4. What is the one need of the political economy, according to Chapter 9?
(a) Money.
(b) Production.
(c) Time.
(d) Power.

5. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.
(a) Power.
(b) Folly.
(c) Hope.
(d) Weakness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?

2. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?

3. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

4. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

5. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

(see the answer key)

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