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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. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?
(a) Debord.
(b) Marx.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Hegel.

2. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Debord.
(d) Marx.

3. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) King.
(b) Feudal lord.
(c) Guild.
(d) Political power.

4. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Synthesize.
(b) Abolish.
(c) Embrace.
(d) Ignore.

5. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?
(a) Life insurance.
(b) Funerals.
(c) Cremations.
(d) Cryogenics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cyclical time started with what group of people in Chapter 5?

2. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?

3. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?

4. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?

5. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?

2. Why do societies organize time, according to Debord?

3. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

4. What is the new architecture that Debord contends is specifically designed for the poor?

5. What is the difference between cyclical time and irreversible time in Debord's opinion?

6. What has the capitalist production system done to space in society, according to Chapter 7?

7. Where does the individual stand in historic time, according to Chapter 6?

8. Why does Debord believe the pilgrim is a representation of a person leaving cyclical time?

9. According to Debord, what is the problem when an ideology becomes the goal and not the means of a revolution?

10. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?

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