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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Marx.
(d) Ruge.
2. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Debord.
(c) Marx.
(d) Hegel.
3. What period does Debord consider to be the beginning of Art?
(a) Dadaism.
(b) Baroque.
(c) Minimalism.
(d) Impressionism.
4. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Abolish.
(b) Synthesize.
(c) Embrace.
(d) Ignore.
5. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.
(a) Quantified.
(b) Qualified.
(c) Valued.
(d) Devalued.
6. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?
(a) Spectacle.
(b) History.
(c) Politics.
(d) Industry.
7. According to Debord, workers exchange production time for what commodity?
(a) Power.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Money.
(d) Safety.
8. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Education imperatives.
(b) Political systems.
(c) Human geography.
(d) Religious power.
9. What is the pilot product of the first stage of commodity abundance, according to Chapter 7?
(a) The washer.
(b) The automobile.
(c) The train.
(d) The printing press.
10. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.
(a) Power.
(b) Dream.
(c) Focus.
(d) Will.
11. What era does Debord say was obsessed with death?
(a) Middle Ages.
(b) Renaissance.
(c) Ancient Rome.
(d) Ancient Greece.
12. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) Labor.
(b) Leisure.
(c) History.
(d) Production.
13. Who is representative of a person leaving cyclical time in Chapter 5?
(a) Proletariat.
(b) Bourgeoisie.
(c) Royalty.
(d) Pilgrim.
14. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?
(a) Irreversible time.
(b) Cyclical time.
(c) Agrarian time.
(d) Logical time.
15. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?
(a) Independence.
(b) Politics.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Beauty.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?
2. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?
3. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
4. What does Debord say planned environments have created?
5. What does Debord believe is the star commodity in the society of the spectacle?
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