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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?
(a) Power.
(b) Time.
(c) Hope.
(d) Money.

2. What era does Debord say was obsessed with death?
(a) Renaissance.
(b) Ancient Greece.
(c) Middle Ages.
(d) Ancient Rome.

3. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?
(a) Historical life.
(b) Political power.
(c) Spectacular society.
(d) Economic imperative.

4. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
(a) Power.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Revolution.
(d) Complacency.

5. What two poles does Debord believe the history of economy has turned on?
(a) North and south.
(b) Rich and poor.
(c) Town and country.
(d) Rulers and subjects.

6. In thesis 173, who is architecture now being specifically created for?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Governments.
(c) The poor.
(d) The ruling class.

7. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?
(a) Cyclical time.
(b) Irreversible time.
(c) Logical time.
(d) Agrarian time.

8. What era does Debord believe de-sanctified power?
(a) Roman.
(b) Ancient Greece.
(c) Renaissance.
(d) Middle Ages.

9. The spectacular power corrupts its subordinates through ____________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Praise.
(b) Threats.
(c) Bribery.
(d) Contempt.

10. Cyclical time started with what group of people in Chapter 5?
(a) Pilgrims.
(b) Bourgeoisie.
(c) Nomads.
(d) Proletariat.

11. In spectacular society, ___________ of time gives way to real time, according to Chapter 6.
(a) Representations.
(b) Promises.
(c) Advertisements.
(d) Illusions.

12. How many hours a day does Debord estimate Americans spend watching television?
(a) 6 to 9.
(b) 2 to 4.
(c) 3 to 6.
(d) 1 to 3.

13. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Marx.
(c) Debord.
(d) Stalin.

14. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?
(a) Independence.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Politics.
(d) Freedom.

15. Culture is defined as what in Chapter 8?
(a) History.
(b) Revolution.
(c) Knowledge.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is representative of a person leaving cyclical time in Chapter 5?

2. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.

3. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?

4. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?

5. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?

(see the answer keys)

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