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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. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Mythological.
(b) Logical.
(c) Ontological.
(d) Pedagogical.

2. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Family.
(b) Totality.
(c) Humanity.
(d) Future.

3. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Fame.
(b) Production.
(c) Fanatics.
(d) Power.

4. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Need.
(b) Hope.
(c) Time.
(d) Capital.

5. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Fascism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

2. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?

3. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

4. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Debord see as the difference between Marx and Hegel?

2. How has the commodity turned the whole planet into a single world market, according to Debord?

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

4. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

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

6. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?

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

8. How has the spectacle evolved from a state of being to a state of appearing, according to Debord?

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

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

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