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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. The unified critique of culture includes the culture of knowledge and the culture of _____, according to Debord.
(a) Art.
(b) Politics.
(c) Literature.
(d) Poetry.

2. Which philosopher is referred to in thesis 206?
(a) Kierkegaard.
(b) Plato.
(c) Voltaire.
(d) Socrates.

3. The unification of culture has led to the demise of art and _________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Knowledge.
(b) History.
(c) Language.
(d) Freedom.

4. Debord considers _______ and surrealism to be the theoretical endpoint for Art.
(a) Minimalism.
(b) Dadaism.
(c) Baroque.
(d) Impressionism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?

2. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?

3. What era does Debord say was obsessed with death?

4. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?

5. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the relationship between time and the bourgeoisie, according to Debord?

2. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?

3. What is culture, according to Debord?

4. What role does Debord believe leisure plays in spectacular society?

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

6. What does Debord see as the role of tourism in the society of the spectacle?

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

8. How does Debord describe fascism?

9. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?

10. What is Debord's view on the progression of art?

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