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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. Production was initially a means of what?

2. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?

3. What ideology does Debord believe relies on violent myth, pseudo-values, and archaic practices?

4. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

5. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the role of science in Utopian society?

3. How has the commodity turned the whole planet into a single world market, according to Debord?

4. How does Debord believe the spectacle negates life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

What is the relationship between the spectacle and religion? How does the spectacle separate man from his spiritual self, according to Debord?

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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