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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Desire.
(c) Need.
(d) Dissatisfaction.

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

3. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Survival supplemented.
(b) Super-survival.
(c) Survival negated.
(d) Augmented survival.

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

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

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

7. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.
(a) Representations.
(b) Death.
(c) Idols.
(d) Folly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Devalue of time.
(b) Abolition of classes.
(c) Loss of history.
(d) Loss of self.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

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

3. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?

4. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

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