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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. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) True atonomy.
(c) Desire.
(d) Fake gratification.

2. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?
(a) Political economy.
(b) Astronomy.
(c) Economics.
(d) Political sociology.

3. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.
(a) Over-development.
(b) Under-development.
(c) Quantitative development.
(d) Qualitative development.

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

5. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?
(a) Confucius.
(b) Marx.
(c) Mao.
(d) Socialism.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

3. Production was initially a means of what?

4. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?

5. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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