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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?
(a) Philosophic.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Historic.
(d) Innovative.

3. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Workers.
(c) Media stars.
(d) Presidents.

4. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?
(a) The stars.
(b) The sun.
(c) The universe.
(d) The moon.

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

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

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

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

9. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Validate.
(b) Rationalize.
(c) Transcend.
(d) Overcome.

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

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

12. Which of the senses does Debord believe the spectacle can manipulate the most?
(a) Scent.
(b) Hearing.
(c) Sight.
(d) Touch.

13. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Revelation.
(c) Falsehood.
(d) Disappointment.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

2. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

3. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?

4. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

5. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

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