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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Unity and Division within Appearance.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Survival supplemented.
(b) Augmented survival.
(c) Super-survival.
(d) Survival negated.

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

3. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.
(a) Fame.
(b) Power.
(c) Fanatics.
(d) Production.

4. Who does Debord see as representing the essence of the spectacle's banality?
(a) Presidents.
(b) Media stars.
(c) Workers.
(d) Philosophers.

5. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.
(a) Represent.
(b) Clarify.
(c) Distort.
(d) Mediate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Production was initially a means of what?

2. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.

3. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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