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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.
(a) Struggle.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Power.
(d) Wealth.

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

3. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Violence.
(b) Unity.
(c) Antagonism.
(d) Freedom.

4. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Logical.
(b) Mythological.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Pedagogical.

5. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Avoidance.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Familiarity.

6. In Russia, the Communist party takeover happened under _________.
(a) Stalin.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Marx.

7. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Transcend.
(b) Overcome.
(c) Rationalize.
(d) Validate.

8. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Workers.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Media stars.

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

10. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Desire.
(c) Limited reality.
(d) Limitless artificiality.

11. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Revelation.
(b) Disappointment.
(c) Clarity.
(d) Falsehood.

12. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Governments.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Rules.
(d) Family.

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

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

15. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?
(a) Quality.
(b) Reason.
(c) Quantity.
(d) Wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

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

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

4. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?

5. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

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