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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.
(a) Hegel.
(b) Ruge.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Marx.

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

3. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Political systems.
(b) Human geography.
(c) Education imperatives.
(d) Religious power.

4. According to thesis 165, the power to __________ is what has battered down the walls between physical places in society.
(a) Homogenize.
(b) Disrupt.
(c) Conceal.
(d) Legitimatize.

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

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

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

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

9. The creation of the pseudo community goes right into the heart of the _______ in Chapter 7.
(a) Religious power.
(b) Political wealth.
(c) Urban center.
(d) Family cell.

10. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?
(a) Political kings.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Ancient Romans.
(d) Bourgeoisie.

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

12. What kind of alienation does Debord believe the spectacle specializes in?
(a) Total.
(b) Linear.
(c) Spatial.
(d) Self.

13. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Political power.
(b) King.
(c) Feudal lord.
(d) Guild.

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

15. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?
(a) Political power.
(b) Spectacular society.
(c) Revolutionary thought.
(d) Economic imperative.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is modern society's obsession with time, as described in Chapter 6?

2. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

3. The spectacular power corrupts its subordinates through ____________ in Chapter 8.

4. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?

5. In the world of advertising, it is forbidden to do what?

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