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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Annihilation.
(b) Negotiation.
(c) Negation.
(d) Automation.

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

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

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

5. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Train.
(b) Plague.
(c) Mirror.
(d) Lake.

6. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?
(a) Gradual process.
(b) Military coup.
(c) Totalitarian authority.
(d) Political campaign.

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

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

9. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Qua commodity.
(b) Quo commodity.
(c) Il commodity.
(d) Id commodity.

10. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?
(a) The periphery.
(b) The top.
(c) The center.
(d) The bottom.

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

12. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Old.
(b) Wise.
(c) Naive.
(d) Young.

13. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Economics.
(c) Religion.
(d) Politics.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?

2. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.

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

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

5. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?

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