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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. Debord sees the proletarian revolution as the critique of ________.
(a) Human geography.
(b) Political systems.
(c) Religious power.
(d) Education imperatives.

2. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Mao.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Marx.

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

4. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) Othello.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) King Lear.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord say planned environments have created?

2. What does Debord believe the commodity excludes?

3. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?

4. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?

5. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?

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