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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 is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

2. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

3. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

4. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

5. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

2. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?

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

4. What role do images play in the spectacle, as explained in thesis 2?

5. What is the dichotomy of the spectacle, according to thesis 8?

6. What does Debord see as the difference between Marx and Hegel?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of the power of commodity as described by Debord and how it resonates throughout the book.

Essay Topic 3

What is the relationship between commodity and celebrity, according to Debord? How are some of those themes echoed in modern American society?

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