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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Negation and Consumption within Culture.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruge doubt he will see in his lifetime?
(a) Bourgeoisie power.
(b) Society of the spectacle.
(c) Production equlity.
(d) Political revolution.

2. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?
(a) Facism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Capitalistic domination.
(d) Political economy.

3. What seeks to supersede all elements of historic time in Debord's opinion?
(a) Revolutionary thought.
(b) Political power.
(c) Economic imperative.
(d) Spectacular society.

4. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?
(a) Absurd.
(b) Useful.
(c) Precious.
(d) Necessary.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Debord say the spectacle originated?

2. What does the commodity's mechanical accumulation unleash in Chapter 3?

3. Dictatorships must be attended by permanent what, according to Debord?

4. According to thesis 165, the power to __________ is what has battered down the walls between physical places in society.

5. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

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