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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) Royalty.
(b) Governments.
(c) The poor.
(d) The ruling class.

2. Who does Debord believe urbanism effectively and dangerously masses together?
(a) The army.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The power.
(d) The workers.

3. What does Debord say planned environments have created?
(a) Unity.
(b) Classless society.
(c) Artificial peasantry.
(d) Royalty.

4. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?
(a) Need.
(b) Technology.
(c) Desire.
(d) Innovation.

5. What is strictly a secondary consideration of time by the modern production system in Chapter 6?
(a) Mechanical element.
(b) Organic element.
(c) Historical element.
(d) Biological element.

6. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Consumable.
(b) Valuable.
(c) Historic.
(d) Useless.

7. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Research.
(b) Plagiarism.
(c) Progress.
(d) Originality.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. What does Debord believe is the star commodity in the society of the spectacle?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Culture.
(c) Technology.
(d) Media.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.

2. Cyclical time is rooted in what kind of labor in Chapter 5?

3. Debord says the study of what is not enough to change the spectacle?

4. The unification of culture has led to the demise of art and _________ in Chapter 8.

5. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?

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