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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. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Historic.
(c) Innovative.
(d) Philosophic.

2. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Automobiles.
(b) Washers.
(c) Shirts.
(d) Keychains.

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

4. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Power.
(c) Culture.
(d) Control.

5. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Prudence.
(d) Hegemony.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?

2. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.

3. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?

4. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Debord mean when he says the spectacle is "the sun that never sets..." in thesis 13?

2. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?

3. What are the paradoxes of the spectacle, as described at the end of Chapter 3?

4. What is the spectrum of the spectacle that Debord describes?

5. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?

6. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?

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

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

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

10. How does Debord believe the spectacle emerges as the totality of social life?

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