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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. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

2. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?

3. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.

4. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?

5. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Debord mean when he says the spectacle is "the sun that never sets..." in thesis 13?

5. According to the quote by Lukacs at the beginning of Chapter 2, what does the commodity represent in society?

6. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

7. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?

8. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?

9. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?

10. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What is the purpose of The Society of the Spectacle? What is the greater truth that Debord illustrates?

Essay Topic 3

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

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