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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Fake gratification.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Desire.
(d) True atonomy.

2. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old friend.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Old enemy.
(d) Statesman.

3. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Insubordination.
(b) Proletarianization.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Bondage.

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Lies.
(b) The government.
(c) Hope.
(d) The spectacle.

5. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Hoping.
(b) Living.
(c) Believing.
(d) Thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

2. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?

3. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.

4. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

5. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between commodity and consumption within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

2. What is the role of science in Utopian society?

3. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?

5. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?

6. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

7. What role do images play in the spectacle, as explained in thesis 2?

8. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

9. What are the byproducts of celebrity, according to Chapter 3?

10. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?

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