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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?
(a) Agnostic.
(b) Aetheistic.
(c) Monotheistic.
(d) Polytheistic.

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

3. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?
(a) Funerals.
(b) Cryogenics.
(c) Life insurance.
(d) Cremations.

4. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Useless.
(c) Boring.
(d) Playful.

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

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

7. Debord says the study of what is not enough to change the spectacle?
(a) Theology.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Anthropology.

8. In the world of advertising, it is forbidden to do what?
(a) Succeed.
(b) Get old.
(c) Be young.
(d) Fail.

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

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

11. Cyclical time is rooted in what kind of labor in Chapter 5?
(a) Political.
(b) Production.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Military.

12. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) History.
(b) Production.
(c) Leisure.
(d) Labor.

13. 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.

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

15. What period does Debord consider to be the beginning of Art?
(a) Minimalism.
(b) Impressionism.
(c) Baroque.
(d) Dadaism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord predict will become the driving force of the American economy is the second half of the twentieth century?

2. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?

3. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?

4. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

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

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