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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What science did the Utopians take as their model?
(a) Astronomy.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Economics.
(d) Anthropology.

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

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

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

5. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Production value.
(b) Perceived value.
(c) Non-value.
(d) Exchange value.

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

7. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Limitless artificiality.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Limited reality.
(d) Desire.

8. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.
(a) Pinnacle.
(b) Perception.
(c) Triumph.
(d) Truth.

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

10. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.
(a) Qualitative development.
(b) Quantitative development.
(c) Under-development.
(d) Over-development.

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

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

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

14. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A foe.
(b) A political system.
(c) A monster.
(d) A social relationship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

2. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

3. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

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

5. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

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