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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 necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?

2. Chapter 5 compares cyclical time and ________ time.

3. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.

4. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?

5. Art's declaration of what was both its beginning and its end, according to Debord?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has the capitalist production system done to space in society, according to Chapter 7?

2. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?

3. According to Debord, what is the problem when an ideology becomes the goal and not the means of a revolution?

4. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?

5. What question is being raised by a school of sociology originating in America in Chapter 8?

6. What does Debord see as the role of tourism in the society of the spectacle?

7. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?

8. What is Debord's view on the progression of art?

9. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?

10. What is the difference between cyclical time and irreversible time in Debord's opinion?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How has The Society of the Spectacle impacted your political or sociological views about life in America? Is America a society of the spectacle? What are specific examples?

Essay Topic 2

How do the cultural and historical aspects of The Society of the Spectacle impact the narrative? How do they impact the themes of life's illusion and emptiness?

Essay Topic 3

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

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