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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Living.
(b) Believing.
(c) Hoping.
(d) Thinking.

3. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?
(a) The sun.
(b) The stars.
(c) The moon.
(d) The universe.

4. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Respecting.
(b) Dreaming.
(c) Loving.
(d) Learning.

5. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.
(a) Representations.
(b) Folly.
(c) Idols.
(d) Death.

6. Production was initially a means of what?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Surplus.
(c) Abundance.
(d) Survival.

7. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
(a) Communist revolution.
(b) Socialistic obscurity.
(c) World transformation.
(d) Capitalistic domination.

8. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Spectacular seduction.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Revolutionary ideology.

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

10. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Insubordination.
(b) Proletarianization.
(c) Bondage.
(d) Freedom.

11. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?
(a) Diplomat.
(b) Emissary.
(c) Counselor.
(d) Lifeguard.

12. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?
(a) Political system.
(b) Socioeconomic system.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Dictatorship.

13. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Totality.
(c) Family.
(d) Future.

14. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Communist.
(b) Dictator
(c) Bourgeois.
(d) Socialist.

15. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?
(a) In a consumer's imagination.
(b) In the harsh light of reality.
(c) In the spectacle's light.
(d) In a consumer's home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?

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

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

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

5. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?

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