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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. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.
(a) Struggle.
(b) Power.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Freedom.
2. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.
(a) European.
(b) Russian.
(c) American.
(d) Chinese.
3. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Desire.
(b) Satisfaction.
(c) Dissatisfaction.
(d) Need.
4. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Presidents.
(b) Workers.
(c) Philosophers.
(d) Media stars.
5. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Wise.
(b) Young.
(c) Naive.
(d) Old.
Short Answer Questions
1. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?
2. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?
3. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
4. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?
5. Production was initially a means of what?
Short Essay Questions
1. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?
2. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?
3. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?
4. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?
5. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?
6. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?
7. What is the role of science in Utopian society?
8. What is the dichotomy of the spectacle, according to thesis 8?
9. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?
10. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?
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