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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 thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Research.
(b) Plagiarism.
(c) Originality.
(d) Progress.
2. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Othello.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Henry IV.
3. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Political systems.
(b) Religious power.
(c) Human geography.
(d) Education imperatives.
4. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.
(a) Power.
(b) Dream.
(c) Focus.
(d) Will.
5. What kind of alienation does Debord believe the spectacle specializes in?
(a) Total.
(b) Linear.
(c) Spatial.
(d) Self.
Short Answer Questions
1. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
2. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?
3. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.
4. What does Debord believe is the star commodity in the society of the spectacle?
5. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?
2. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?
3. Why does Debord believe the pilgrim is a representation of a person leaving cyclical time?
4. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?
5. How does Debord describe fascism?
6. What is the difference between cyclical time and irreversible time in Debord's opinion?
7. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?
8. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?
9. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?
10. According to Debord, what is the problem when an ideology becomes the goal and not the means of a revolution?
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