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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. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.
(a) Focus.
(b) Power.
(c) Will.
(d) Dream.

2. What does Debord say planned environments have created?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Classless society.
(c) Artificial peasantry.
(d) Unity.

3. Who does Debord believe urbanism effectively and dangerously masses together?
(a) The army.
(b) The bourgeoisie.
(c) The workers.
(d) The power.

4. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Henry IV.
(c) King Lear.
(d) Othello.

5. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?
(a) Beauty.
(b) Independence.
(c) Politics.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 173, who is architecture now being specifically created for?

2. What kind of religion was a compromise between myth and history, according to Debord?

3. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?

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

5. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question is being raised by a school of sociology originating in America in Chapter 8?

2. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?

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

9. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?

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

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