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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Unity and Division within Appearance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Lake.
(b) Train.
(c) Plague.
(d) Mirror.

2. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?
(a) Similarity.
(b) Ignorance.
(c) Avoidance.
(d) Familiarity.

3. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Believing.
(b) Living.
(c) Thinking.
(d) Hoping.

4. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Philosophers.
(b) Presidents.
(c) Media stars.
(d) Workers.

5. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Facism.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?

2. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

3. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?

4. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

5. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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