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

2. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Wisdom.
(c) Allegiance.
(d) Faith.

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

4. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?
(a) History.
(b) Industry.
(c) Politics.
(d) Spectacle.

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

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

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

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

9. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Ignore.
(b) Abolish.
(c) Synthesize.
(d) Embrace.

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

11. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Meaning.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Truth.

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

13. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?
(a) Alienation.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Tourism.

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

15. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?
(a) Debord.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Marx.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two poles does Debord believe the history of economy has turned on?

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

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

4. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?

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

(see the answer keys)

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