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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. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?
(a) Pseudo-wealth.
(b) Pseudo-countryside.
(c) Pseudo-cities.
(d) Pseudo-culture.

2. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?
(a) Illusion.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Truth.
(d) Meaning.

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

4. According to Debord, urbanization is __________.
(a) Alienation.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Tourism.

5. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Hegel.
(c) Marx.
(d) Ruge.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.

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

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

4. What does Debord say planned environments have created?

5. What religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

8. What is culture, according to Debord?

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

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

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