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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 Debord believe is the star commodity in the society of the spectacle?
(a) Culture.
(b) Media.
(c) Technology.
(d) Freedom.

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

3. What is the pilot product of the first stage of commodity abundance, according to Chapter 7?
(a) The washer.
(b) The train.
(c) The printing press.
(d) The automobile.

4. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?
(a) Thinking.
(b) Believing.
(c) Hoping.
(d) Living.

5. Through production, Debord sees the economy is based on __________.
(a) Under-development.
(b) Over-development.
(c) Quantitative development.
(d) Qualitative development.

Short Answer Questions

1. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

2. What necessity is carefully concealed in the grand style of Debord's era?

3. In thesis 35, the commodity abounds in ____________subtleties.

4. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?

5. What does urbanism institute as it destroys the cities in Chapter 7?

(see the answer key)

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