The Society of the Spectacle Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 95 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Society of the Spectacle Test | Final Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 95 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
(a) Marx.
(b) Stalin.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Debord.

2. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Alienation.

3. The development of ___________ created a unified history devoid of real time in Chapter 5.
(a) Facism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Socialism.

4. According to Debord, workers exchange production time for what commodity?
(a) Power.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Money.
(d) Safety.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.

2. What era does Debord believe de-sanctified power?

3. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?

4. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?

5. What does Debord predict will become the driving force of the American economy is the second half of the twentieth century?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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