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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?
(a) Religion.
(b) Division.
(c) Education.
(d) Unification.

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

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

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

8. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Ignorance.
(d) Similarity.

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

10. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Logical.
(b) Mythological.
(c) Pedagogical.
(d) Ontological.

11. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Production.
(b) Death.
(c) Education.
(d) Life.

12. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Socialism.

13. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Communism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Socialism.

14. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?
(a) Organization.
(b) Production.
(c) Longevity.
(d) Military.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?

2. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

3. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?

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

5. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.

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