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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Time.
(d) Purpose.

4. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Qualitative.
(b) Subjective.
(c) Objective.
(d) Quantitative.

5. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Scientific and Historical.
(b) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(c) Theoretical and Established.
(d) Military and Peaceful.

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

7. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Systematic.
(c) Illogical.
(d) Symantic.

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

9. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Respecting.
(b) Loving.
(c) Dreaming.
(d) Learning.

10. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Capital.
(b) Need.
(c) Time.
(d) Hope.

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

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

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

14. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Production.
(b) Fame.
(c) Fanatics.
(d) Power.

15. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?
(a) Revolutionary ideology.
(b) Spectacular seduction.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

2. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

3. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?

4. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.

5. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

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