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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 Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?
(a) Spectacular society.
(b) Historical life.
(c) Economic imperative.
(d) Political power.

2. The unified critique of culture includes the culture of knowledge and the culture of _____, according to Debord.
(a) Politics.
(b) Art.
(c) Poetry.
(d) Literature.

3. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?
(a) Time.
(b) Power.
(c) Hope.
(d) Money.

4. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
(a) King Lear.
(b) Henry IV.
(c) Othello.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

5. What kind of alienation does Debord believe the spectacle specializes in?
(a) Spatial.
(b) Linear.
(c) Self.
(d) Total.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Cyclical time started with what group of people in Chapter 5?

3. The unification of culture has led to the demise of art and _________ in Chapter 8.

4. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

5. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has the capitalist production system done to space in society, according to Chapter 7?

2. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

3. What is culture, according to Debord?

4. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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