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

2. Debord saw Hegel's role as one of a _____________.
(a) Philosopher.
(b) Innovator.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Economist.

3. In thesis 1, life has become mere ________.
(a) Idols.
(b) Folly.
(c) Death.
(d) Representations.

4. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?
(a) Humantiy.
(b) Social interaction.
(c) Labor sold.
(d) Production.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

2. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?

3. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

4. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?

5. Debord sees Marxist theory as what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What role do images play in the spectacle, as explained in thesis 2?

9. According to the quote by Lukacs at the beginning of Chapter 2, what does the commodity represent in society?

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

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