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

2. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Opium.
(c) Consumer.
(d) World.

3. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
(a) Socialistic obscurity.
(b) Communist revolution.
(c) Capitalistic domination.
(d) World transformation.

4. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?
(a) Production.
(b) Military.
(c) Longevity.
(d) Organization.

5. In thesis 13, the spectacle is essentially what?
(a) Tautological.
(b) Illogical.
(c) Systematic.
(d) Symantic.

Short Answer Questions

1. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

2. Production was initially a means of what?

3. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

4. Which of the senses does Debord believe the spectacle can manipulate the most?

5. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What becomes the only economic necessity as social labor grows in Chapter 2?

7. In Chapter 2, how have the forces of production changed the basis for human development?

8. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?

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

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

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