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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. According to thesis 55, struggles between forces have been established for the purpose of running what?
(a) Socioeconomic system.
(b) Dictatorship.
(c) Democracy.
(d) Political system.

2. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?
(a) Need.
(b) Capital.
(c) Time.
(d) Hope.

3. In thesis 9, Debord says truth is a moment of what?
(a) Clarity.
(b) Falsehood.
(c) Disappointment.
(d) Revelation.

4. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?
(a) Realm of appearance.
(b) Realm of fantasy.
(c) Economic power.
(d) Political power.

5. What does Debord see as the beginning and the end of the spectacle?
(a) Separation.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hope.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.

2. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?

3. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

4. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?

5. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?

(see the answer key)

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