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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?
(a) Facism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalistic domination.
(d) Political economy.

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

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

4. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?
(a) A schneidel.
(b) A wachenburg.
(c) A weltanschauung.
(d) A schnell.

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

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

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

8. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Capital.
(b) Hope.
(c) Time.
(d) Need.

9. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Time.
(d) Purpose.

10. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Keychains.
(b) Shirts.
(c) Washers.
(d) Automobiles.

11. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Loss of self.
(b) Loss of history.
(c) Abolition of classes.
(d) Devalue of time.

12. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Fascism.

13. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?
(a) Economics.
(b) Political economy.
(c) Political sociology.
(d) Astronomy.

14. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Power.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Freedom.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

4. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

5. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?

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