View a FREE sample

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 believe the unity of poverty conceals?

2. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

3. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?

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

5. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

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

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

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

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

7. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?

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

9. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In what ways does the spectacle deny humanity? Why does Debord believe this more true for the proletariat than the bourgeoisie?

Essay Topic 2

What is ironic in both the tone and content of The Society of the Spectacle?

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 789 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample