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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 are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Scientific and Historical.
(c) Military and Peaceful.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

2. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?
(a) Revolutionary ideology.
(b) Communism.
(c) Spectacular seduction.
(d) Socialism.

3. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Prudence.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Hegemony.
(d) Freedom.

4. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Capitalism.

5. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Mirror.
(b) Plague.
(c) Train.
(d) Lake.

Short Answer Questions

1. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.

2. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?

3. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.

4. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?

5. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?

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

4. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

5. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?

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

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

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

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

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

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