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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?
(a) Mao.
(b) Confucius.
(c) Socialism.
(d) Marx.

3. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?
(a) Realm of appearance.
(b) Economic power.
(c) Realm of fantasy.
(d) Political power.

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

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

6. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Russian.
(b) European.
(c) Chinese.
(d) American.

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

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

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

10. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Bourgeoisie.
(d) Proletariat.

11. Debord saw Hegel's role as one of a _____________.
(a) Economist.
(b) Scientist.
(c) Philosopher.
(d) Innovator.

12. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?
(a) In the harsh light of reality.
(b) In a consumer's home.
(c) In the spectacle's light.
(d) In a consumer's imagination.

13. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.
(a) Reality.
(b) Truth.
(c) Leader.
(d) Dogma.

14. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?
(a) Communism.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Fascist domination.
(d) Imperial domination.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

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

3. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

4. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?

5. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

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