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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. Chapter 8 begins with a letter from Arnold Ruge to whom?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Debord.
(c) Machiavelli.
(d) Marx.
2. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?
(a) Debord.
(b) Marx.
(c) Hegel.
(d) Machiavelli.
3. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?
(a) Embrace.
(b) Abolish.
(c) Ignore.
(d) Synthesize.
4. The spectacular power corrupts its subordinates through ____________ in Chapter 8.
(a) Praise.
(b) Threats.
(c) Contempt.
(d) Bribery.
5. In the world of advertising, it is forbidden to do what?
(a) Get old.
(b) Be young.
(c) Succeed.
(d) Fail.
Short Answer Questions
1. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
2. What do societies focus on in Chapter 5 to enable them to span time?
3. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?
4. Culture is defined as what in Chapter 8?
5. What does Debord predict will become the driving force of the American economy is the second half of the twentieth century?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?
2. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?
3. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?
4. What has the capitalist production system done to space in society, according to Chapter 7?
5. What is culture, according to Debord?
6. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?
7. What is the relationship between time and the bourgeoisie, according to Debord?
8. Why do societies organize time, according to Debord?
9. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?
10. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?
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