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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Commodity as Spectacle.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?
(a) Dreaming.
(b) Respecting.
(c) Learning.
(d) Loving.

2. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A social relationship.
(b) A foe.
(c) A political system.
(d) A monster.

3. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Bondage.
(d) Proletarianization.

4. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Consumer.
(b) Voter.
(c) Citizen.
(d) Producer.

5. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Automation.
(b) Negotiation.
(c) Negation.
(d) Annihilation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.

3. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?

4. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

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

(see the answer key)

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