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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 Marxist theory as what?
(a) Scientific.
(b) Historic.
(c) Innovative.
(d) Philosophic.

2. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?
(a) Industry.
(b) Spectacle.
(c) Politics.
(d) History.

3. What science did the Utopians take as their model?
(a) Economics.
(b) Astrology.
(c) Anthropology.
(d) Astronomy.

4. What does Debord predict will become the driving force of the American economy is the second half of the twentieth century?
(a) Technology.
(b) Media.
(c) Culture.
(d) Freedom.

5. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?
(a) Tourism.
(b) Alienation.
(c) Urbanization.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. The creation of the pseudo community goes right into the heart of the _______ in Chapter 7.

2. The more a spectator contemplates life, the less Debord believes he is doing what?

3. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?

4. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?

5. Which of the senses does Debord believe the spectacle can manipulate the most?

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