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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 does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?
(a) Economic power.
(b) Realm of appearance.
(c) Realm of fantasy.
(d) Political power.

2. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?
(a) Economics.
(b) Religion.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Politics.

3. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.
(a) Mythological.
(b) Quantum.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Fantastical.

4. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Objective.

5. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Education.
(b) Life.
(c) Production.
(d) Death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

2. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

3. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?

4. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the paradoxes of the spectacle, as described at the end of Chapter 3?

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

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

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

5. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

6. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?

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

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

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

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

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