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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?
(a) Annihilation.
(b) Negation.
(c) Automation.
(d) Negotiation.

3. In Chapter 3, the spectacle is the epic strife that no fall of ______ can bring to an end.
(a) Hercules.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Daedeus.
(d) Ilium.

4. To Marx, the __________ was more important than the law.
(a) Wealth.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Power.
(d) Struggle.

5. Debord says that survival can gild poverty, but it cannot ___________ it.
(a) Validate.
(b) Rationalize.
(c) Overcome.
(d) Transcend.

6. What item does Debord use in Chapter 3 to demonstrate a fad?
(a) Automobiles.
(b) Keychains.
(c) Washers.
(d) Shirts.

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

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

9. The rise of __________ Communism exposes the lie of it being an international ideology, according to Chapter 4.
(a) European.
(b) American.
(c) Russian.
(d) Chinese.

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

11. The abundance of commodity is no more than _____________, according to Chapter 2.
(a) Survival supplemented.
(b) Augmented survival.
(c) Survival negated.
(d) Super-survival.

12. As it accumulates, where does Chapter 2 say that capital spreads to?
(a) The center.
(b) The top.
(c) The periphery.
(d) The bottom.

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

14. What does an economic system founded on separation lead to, according to Chapter 1?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Insubordination.
(c) Bondage.
(d) Proletarianization.

15. Debord believes political economy never considers the worker in his what?
(a) Totality.
(b) Humanity.
(c) Future.
(d) Family.

Short Answer Questions

1. The specialization of _____ is the root of the spectacle, as described in Chapter 1.

2. The dynamism of capitalism is ruled by things that are what, in Chapter 3?

3. What does the spectacle monopolize, according to thesis 12?

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

5. According to thesis 42, the entirety of what is transformed into the total commodity?

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