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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. When does Debord believe new products evaporate into vulgarity?
(a) In the harsh light of reality.
(b) In a consumer's home.
(c) In a consumer's imagination.
(d) In the spectacle's light.

2. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Freedom.
(b) Prudence.
(c) Duplicity.
(d) Hegemony.

3. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.
(a) Dictator
(b) Communist.
(c) Socialist.
(d) Bourgeois.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

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

3. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

4. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?

5. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?

(see the answer key)

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