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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. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Colonization of social life.
(b) Negation of humanity.
(c) Insubordination of social life.
(d) Isolation of humanity.

2. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Subjective.
(b) Qualitative.
(c) Objective.
(d) Quantitative.

3. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?
(a) Abolition of classes.
(b) Devalue of time.
(c) Loss of history.
(d) Loss of self.

4. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.
(a) Quantum.
(b) Fantastical.
(c) Metaphysical.
(d) Mythological.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

2. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

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

4. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.

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

(see the answer key)

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