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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In previous periods, who does Debord say architectural innovation served?
(a) The poor.
(b) Governments.
(c) Royalty.
(d) The ruling class.

2. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-countryside.
(b) Pseudo-wealth.
(c) Pseudo-culture.
(d) Pseudo-cities.

3. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) King Lear.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Othello.

4. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.
(a) Historic.
(b) Political.
(c) Spectacular.
(d) Irreversible.

5. The unification of culture has led to the demise of art and _________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Language.
(c) Freedom.
(d) History.

6. The unified critique of culture includes the culture of knowledge and the culture of _____, according to Debord.
(a) Art.
(b) Politics.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Literature.

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

8. What does Ruge doubt he will see in his lifetime?
(a) Political revolution.
(b) Society of the spectacle.
(c) Production equlity.
(d) Bourgeoisie power.

9. Which philosopher is referred to in thesis 206?
(a) Voltaire.
(b) Plato.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Kierkegaard.

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

11. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.
(a) Valued.
(b) Quantified.
(c) Devalued.
(d) Qualified.

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

13. Debord considers _______ and surrealism to be the theoretical endpoint for Art.
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Baroque.
(c) Impressionism.
(d) Minimalism.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?

2. What era does Debord believe de-sanctified power?

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

4. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?

5. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?

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