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

2. 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.

3. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Statesman.
(b) Sorcerer.
(c) Old enemy.
(d) Old friend.

4. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.
(a) Perception.
(b) Truth.
(c) Pinnacle.
(d) Triumph.

5. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.
(a) Under-development.
(b) Over-development.
(c) Qualitative development.
(d) Quantitative development.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?

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

3. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?

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

5. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

(see the answer key)

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