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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 science did the Utopians take as their model?
(a) Astrology.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Economics.
(d) Anthropology.

2. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Facism.
(b) Capitalism.
(c) Communism.
(d) Socialism.

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

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

5. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Survival supplemented.
(b) Augmented survival.
(c) Super-survival.
(d) Survival negated.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?

4. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

5. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the spectacle "epitomize the prevailing model of social life," according to Debord?

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

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

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

8. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

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

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

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