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

2. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?
(a) Spectacular seduction.
(b) Revolutionary ideology.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

3. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Scientific and Historical.
(b) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(c) Military and Peaceful.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

4. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Economic.
(b) Political.
(c) Religious.
(d) Scientific.

5. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Time.
(d) Purpose.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?

2. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

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

4. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?

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

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

5. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?

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

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

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

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

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

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