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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.
(a) Ilium.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Daedeus.

7. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Duplicity.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Hegemony.

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

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

10. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Political.
(b) Religious.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Economic.

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

12. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Culture.
(b) Contemplation.
(c) Control.
(d) Power.

13. Which of the senses does Debord believe the spectacle can manipulate the most?
(a) Scent.
(b) Sight.
(c) Hearing.
(d) Touch.

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

15. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Fake gratification.
(c) Desire.
(d) True atonomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

2. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

3. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

4. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

5. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?

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