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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is an illusion of production in thesis 27?
(a) Time.
(b) Productivity.
(c) Purpose.
(d) Leisure.

2. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?
(a) Unity.
(b) Fear.
(c) Hope.
(d) Separation.

3. As man creates his own world, the more drastically Debord believes he is cut off from what?
(a) Education.
(b) Life.
(c) Death.
(d) Production.

4. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Lies.
(b) The spectacle.
(c) Hope.
(d) The government.

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

6. What is the tendency that the spectacle creates for the planet to function under a single field of operation, according to Debord?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Capitalism.

7. In thesis 13, Debord compares the spectacle to what?
(a) The moon.
(b) The universe.
(c) The sun.
(d) The stars.

8. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?
(a) Military and Peaceful.
(b) Bourgeois and Proletariat.
(c) Theoretical and Established.
(d) Scientific and Historical.

9. What becomes a commodity in the economics of affluence, according to Chapter 3?
(a) Satisfaction.
(b) Dissatisfaction.
(c) Need.
(d) Desire.

10. Who was the general responsible for the battle of Kursk?
(a) Stalin.
(b) Eisenhower.
(c) Lenin.
(d) Khrushchev.

11. What does Debord believe is the chief mechanism for passing on class power?
(a) Governments.
(b) Rules.
(c) Family.
(d) Wealth.

12. In thesis 16, Debord refers to the spectacle as a what?
(a) Train.
(b) Mirror.
(c) Plague.
(d) Lake.

13. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?
(a) Political power.
(b) Realm of fantasy.
(c) Economic power.
(d) Realm of appearance.

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

15. The Bourgeois Era was eager to give history what kind of foundation?
(a) Economic.
(b) Religious.
(c) Scientific.
(d) Political.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Debord's opinion, what does the spectacle manufacture?

2. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?

3. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.

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

5. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?

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