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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 rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.
(a) Russian.
(b) European.
(c) Chinese.
(d) American.

2. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Similarity.
(d) Ignorance.

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

4. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.
(a) Hercules.
(b) Daedeus.
(c) Ilium.
(d) Apollo.

5. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Abolition of classes.
(b) Loss of self.
(c) Loss of history.
(d) Devalue of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?

2. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?

3. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.

4. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.

5. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the dichotomy of the spectacle, according to thesis 8?

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

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

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

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

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

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