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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. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A foe.
(b) A monster.
(c) A political system.
(d) A social relationship.

2. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Time.
(c) Hope.
(d) Alienation.

3. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Productivity.
(b) Purpose.
(c) Leisure.
(d) Time.

4. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Proletarianization.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Bondage.

5. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.
(a) Power.
(b) Wealth.
(c) Freedom.
(d) Struggle.

Short Answer Questions

1. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?

2. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

3. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?

4. What is the pivotal issue that Debord thinks is ignored in revolutionary theory?

5. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

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