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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Feuerbach.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Ruge.
(d) Lukacs.

2. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?
(a) Unity.
(b) Separation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Hope.

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

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

5. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Producer.
(b) Citizen.
(c) Consumer.
(d) Voter.

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

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

8. What year did Marx's revolution fail?
(a) 1824.
(b) 1848.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1863.

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

10. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Khrushchev.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) Lenin.

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

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

13. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?
(a) Jefferson.
(b) Washington.
(c) Lincoln.
(d) Kennedy.

14. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Hope.
(b) Separation.
(c) Fear.
(d) Unity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.

2. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

3. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

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

5. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

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