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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 necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?
(a) Royalty.
(b) Power.
(c) Complacency.
(d) Revolution.

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

3. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(b) Military and Peaceful.
(c) Scientific and Historical.
(d) Theoretical and Established.

4. 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.

5. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Plagiarism.
(b) Originality.
(c) Research.
(d) Progress.

Short Answer Questions

1. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

2. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

3. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?

4. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?

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

(see the answer key)

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