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

2. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.
(a) Irreversible.
(b) Spectacular.
(c) Historic.
(d) Political.

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

4. What does Debord say planned environments have created?
(a) Classless society.
(b) Royalty.
(c) Artificial peasantry.
(d) Unity.

5. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?
(a) Independence.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Politics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In thesis 173, who is architecture now being specifically created for?

3. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?

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

5. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Debord describe fascism?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

8. What is culture, according to Debord?

9. What does Debord see as the role of tourism in the society of the spectacle?

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

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