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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Because of the economy of the commodity, the worker has a new role as what in Chapter 2?
(a) Voter.
(b) Consumer.
(c) Producer.
(d) Citizen.

3. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.
(a) Theoretical.
(b) Opium.
(c) World.
(d) Consumer.

4. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.
(a) Lukacs.
(b) Ruge.
(c) Feuerbach.
(d) Machiavelli.

5. The commodity is valued as what, in Chapter 3?
(a) Il commodity.
(b) Id commodity.
(c) Qua commodity.
(d) Quo commodity.

6. What does Debord believes lies behind the glitter of the spectacle's distractions?
(a) Global unity.
(b) Emptiness.
(c) Global domination.
(d) Freedom.

7. In the beginning of Chapter 2, Debord refers to commodity as what?
(a) Old friend.
(b) Statesman.
(c) Old enemy.
(d) Sorcerer.

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

9. The commodity is exclusively what in nature, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Objective.
(b) Quantitative.
(c) Qualitative.
(d) Subjective.

10. In thesis 3, the spectacle serves as a means of what in society?
(a) Unification.
(b) Religion.
(c) Education.
(d) Division.

11. In thesis 4, images _________ the spectacle.
(a) Distort.
(b) Clarify.
(c) Represent.
(d) Mediate.

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

13. In Russia, the Communist party takeover happened under _________.
(a) Lenin.
(b) Marx.
(c) Stalin.
(d) Khrushchev.

14. Debord believes the spectacle uses money for what only?
(a) Contemplation.
(b) Control.
(c) Culture.
(d) Power.

15. What does Debord believe the unity of poverty conceals?
(a) Violence.
(b) Antagonism.
(c) Unity.
(d) Freedom.

Short Answer Questions

1. In order to succeed, Debord says revolutionary theory must reject what?

2. Bakunin favored what method to establish a socialist society?

3. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?

4. Who does Debord say delivered his own funeral oration in a sense?

5. Debord believes the origin of the spectacle lies in the world's loss of what?

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