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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Negation and Consumption within Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Production was initially a means of what?
(a) Surplus.
(b) Luxury.
(c) Survival.
(d) Abundance.

2. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Economic.
(b) Scientific.
(c) Political.
(d) Religious.

3. What is the pilot product of the first stage of commodity abundance, according to Chapter 7?
(a) The automobile.
(b) The printing press.
(c) The train.
(d) The washer.

4. Where was universal history born, according to Chapter 7?
(a) In cities.
(b) In kingdoms.
(c) In countries.
(d) In dark corners.

5. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Life.
(b) Death.
(c) Production.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

3. How many hours a day does Debord estimate Americans spend watching television?

4. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

5. Debord saw Hegel's role as one of a _____________.

(see the answer key)

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