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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. What effectively erases history, according to Debord?
(a) Irreversible time.
(b) Agrarian time.
(c) Logical time.
(d) Cyclical time.

2. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?
(a) Facism.
(b) Capitalistic domination.
(c) Communism.
(d) Political economy.

3. What does Deobrd believe culture provides in a society?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Truth.
(c) Illusion.
(d) Freedom.

4. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Power.
(c) Consumption.
(d) Satisfaction.

5. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Urbanization.
(c) Alienation.
(d) Tourism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?

2. The goal of communism, as stated in Chapter 6, is to do what to everything that exists independently of individuals?

3. The spectacular power corrupts its subordinates through ____________ in Chapter 8.

4. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.

5. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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