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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. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?
(a) Military coup.
(b) Political campaign.
(c) Gradual process.
(d) Totalitarian authority.

2. What kind of pseudo-cyclical time is time in the spectacle, according to Chapter 6?
(a) Historic.
(b) Consumable.
(c) Valuable.
(d) Useless.

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

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

5. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?
(a) Need.
(b) Innovation.
(c) Technology.
(d) Desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.

2. In thesis 20, the spectacle is the material reconstruction of what?

3. The Renaissance embodies a new form of possessing what in Chapter 5?

4. What is the negative form of the consciousness of desire, in Debord's opinion?

5. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?

(see the answer key)

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