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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. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?
(a) Division.
(b) Religion.
(c) Unification.
(d) Education.

2. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?
(a) Labor.
(b) Production.
(c) Leisure.
(d) History.

3. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Machiavelli.
(b) Ruge.
(c) Feuerbach.
(d) Lukacs.

4. The historical moment of the spectacle corresponds to when the commodity completes what, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Colonization of social life.
(b) Insubordination of social life.
(c) Negation of humanity.
(d) Isolation of humanity.

5. Racism invests vulgar rankings in the hierarchies of consumption through a _______ superiority in Chapter 3.
(a) Pedagogical.
(b) Ontological.
(c) Logical.
(d) Mythological.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Debord see as representing the return of reflecting on secular power?

2. What does the spectacle accumulate to the point where it becomes an image in Chapter 1?

3. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

5. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?

(see the answer key)

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