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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Spectacular Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.
(a) Reality.
(b) Leader.
(c) Truth.
(d) Dogma.

2. The religious appeal to God is analogous to the peasant appeal to the ______, according to Chapter 5.
(a) Guild.
(b) Political power.
(c) King.
(d) Feudal lord.

3. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) Opium.
(b) Theoretical.
(c) Consumer.
(d) World.

4. What is strictly a secondary consideration of time by the modern production system in Chapter 6?
(a) Mechanical element.
(b) Biological element.
(c) Historical element.
(d) Organic element.

5. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?
(a) Economics.
(b) Political economy.
(c) Political sociology.
(d) Astronomy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?

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

3. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?

4. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.

5. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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