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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 does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

2. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

4. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.

5. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

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

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

6. How does the spectacle "epitomize the prevailing model of social life," according to Debord?

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

8. What are the byproducts of celebrity, according to Chapter 3?

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

10. How has the spectacle evolved from a state of being to a state of appearing, according to Debord?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the extended metaphor that the spectacle represents?

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

Discuss the culture of the spectacle and the long term impact Debord believes it has on knowledge and art.

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