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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 creation of the pseudo community goes right into the heart of the _______ in Chapter 7.
(a) Religious power.
(b) Political wealth.
(c) Urban center.
(d) Family cell.

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

3. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?
(a) Rome.
(b) Greece.
(c) England.
(d) America.

4. Debord characterizes time in a classless society as being what?
(a) Powerful.
(b) Boring.
(c) Playful.
(d) Useless.

5. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Education imperatives.
(b) Political systems.
(c) Religious power.
(d) Human geography.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

2. What does Ruge doubt he will see in his lifetime?

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

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

5. What kind of alienation does Debord believe the spectacle specializes in?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?

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

7. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?

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

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

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

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