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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In spectacular society, ___________ of time gives way to real time, according to Chapter 6.
(a) Representations.
(b) Promises.
(c) Illusions.
(d) Advertisements.

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

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

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

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

10. Critical theory has to be communicated in the language of __________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Fear.
(b) Hope.
(c) Agreement.
(d) Contradiction.

11. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?
(a) Independence.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Politics.
(d) Freedom.

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

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

14. What religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Mythology

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?

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

3. The revolution will restore what in terms of travel and place, according to Chapter 7?

4. The development of ___________ created a unified history devoid of real time in Chapter 5.

5. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

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