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

2. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Lies.
(b) The government.
(c) The spectacle.
(d) Hope.

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

4. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?
(a) Limitless artificiality.
(b) Limited reality.
(c) Abundance.
(d) Desire.

5. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Totality.
(c) Family.
(d) Future.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

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

3. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

4. In the least industrialized regions, Debord believes dictatorships are felt in the form of what?

5. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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