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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. The development of ___________ created a unified history devoid of real time in Chapter 5.

2. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?

3. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?

4. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?

5. What was the first ruling class for which labor was a value, according to Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the new architecture that Debord contends is specifically designed for the poor?

2. Where does the individual stand in historic time, according to Chapter 6?

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

4. What is culture, according to Debord?

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

6. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?

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

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

9. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

10. What is the pseudo countryside, 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 destructive force of the commodity within the spectacle and the effect Debord believes this has on the consumer.

Essay Topic 3

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

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