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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?
(a) Communist revolution.
(b) Socialistic obscurity.
(c) World transformation.
(d) Capitalistic domination.

2. 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) Capitalism.
(c) Facism.
(d) Communism.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Debord say every Chinese person must study?

2. What are the two kinds of revolution described in Chapter 4?

3. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the dichotomy of the spectacle, according to thesis 8?

2. What is the role of science in Utopian society?

3. What becomes the only economic necessity as social labor grows in Chapter 2?

4. What does Debord mean when he says the spectacle is "the sun that never sets..." in thesis 13?

5. What is the spectrum of the spectacle that Debord describes?

6. What three things does the spectacle become, as explained in thesis 3?

7. What role did Hegel have in interpreting the world?

8. How is a celebrity viewed by Debord as an individual within the spectacle?

9. What role does Debord believe celebrity plays in the spectacle?

10. What is the difference between socialist revolution and anarchist revolution in Chapter 4?

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