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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?

2. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

3. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

4. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

5. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

Short Essay Questions

1. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?

2. What becomes the only economic necessity as social labor grows in Chapter 2?

3. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?

4. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?

5. In Chapter 2, how have the forces of production changed the basis for human development?

6. What is the spectrum of the spectacle that Debord describes?

7. What is the relationship between commodity and consumption within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

8. How does Debord believe the spectacle emerges as the totality of social life?

9. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?

10. What are the paradoxes of the spectacle, as described at the end of Chapter 3?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is the society of the spectacle "ideology par excellence"? What is the nature of ideology, according to Debord?

Essay Topic 2

How can "survival gild poverty, but never transcend it"? What role does Debord believe poverty plays in the spectacle?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the destructive force of the commodity within the spectacle and the effect Debord believes this has on the consumer.

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