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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. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?
(a) Greece.
(b) England.
(c) Rome.
(d) America.
2. In the world of advertising, it is forbidden to do what?
(a) Be young.
(b) Get old.
(c) Succeed.
(d) Fail.
3. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Feudal lord.
(b) Guild.
(c) Political power.
(d) King.
4. What is modern society's obsession with time, as described in Chapter 6?
(a) Inventing it.
(b) Creating it.
(c) Saving it.
(d) Using it.
5. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?
(a) Power.
(b) Hope.
(c) Money.
(d) Time.
Short Answer Questions
1. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?
2. What does Debord use as an example of the spectacle in his discussion of life and death in Chapter 6?
3. How many hours a day does Debord estimate Americans spend watching television?
4. What kind of alienation does Debord believe the spectacle specializes in?
5. According to thesis 165, the power to __________ is what has battered down the walls between physical places in society.
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?
2. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?
3. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?
4. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?
5. What question is being raised by a school of sociology originating in America in Chapter 8?
6. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?
7. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?
8. What is the relationship between time and the bourgeoisie, according to Debord?
9. What is Debord's view on the progression of art?
10. How does Debord describe fascism?
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