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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, The Proletariat as Subject and as Representation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Desire.
(b) Need.
(c) Satisfaction.
(d) Dissatisfaction.

2. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Lukacs.
(b) Ruge.
(c) Feuerbach.
(d) Machiavelli.

3. Debord saw Hegel's role as one of a _____________.
(a) Economist.
(b) Innovator.
(c) Scientist.
(d) Philosopher.

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

5. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?
(a) Useful.
(b) Absurd.
(c) Precious.
(d) Necessary.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?

2. According to thesis 21, what is a social necessity?

3. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

4. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

5. In Russia, the Communist party takeover happened under _________.

(see the answer key)

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