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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What role does Debord believe money plays in commodity?
(a) Lifeguard.
(b) Counselor.
(c) Diplomat.
(d) Emissary.

2. Because of the spectacle, society does not need to exercise economic ______ in Chapter 3.
(a) Prudence.
(b) Duplicity.
(c) Hegemony.
(d) Freedom.

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

4. In Debord's opinion, the spectacle is an heir to the ______ of Western philosophy.
(a) Power.
(b) Hope.
(c) Folly.
(d) Weakness.

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

6. Production was initially a means of what?
(a) Luxury.
(b) Abundance.
(c) Surplus.
(d) Survival.

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

8. What ushers in the class struggles of the long revolutionary periods, according to Hegel?
(a) Socialism.
(b) Communism.
(c) Proletariat.
(d) Bourgeoisie.

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

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

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

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

13. What has arisen as the proxy of the use value of a commodity, according to Chapter 2?
(a) Exchange value.
(b) Non-value.
(c) Perceived value.
(d) Production value.

14. The spectacle is quintessentially dogmatic, yet produces no solid _______, in Chapter 3.
(a) Leader.
(b) Dogma.
(c) Truth.
(d) Reality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Fads make the commodity more and more what, according to Debord?

2. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.

3. In thesis 5, the spectacle should be viewed as what?

4. According to Debord, each new product is supposed to offer a shortcut to the promised land of what?

5. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

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