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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. The spectacle in thesis 4 is described as what?
(a) A foe.
(b) A monster.
(c) A political system.
(d) A social relationship.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Debord, Marxism was mutilated by what?

2. According to thesis 44, the spectacle is a permanent _________ war.

3. When did the bourgeoisie develop its autonomous economic power, according to Chapter 4?

4. What did Hegel interpret according to Chapter 4?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to the quote by Lukacs at the beginning of Chapter 2, what does the commodity represent in society?

3. How do Russia and the Bolshevik Revolution demonstrate the problems of an educated proletariat?

4. What are the byproducts of celebrity, according to Chapter 3?

5. What is the commodity cycle within the spectacle, according to Chapter 3?

6. How has the spectacle evolved from a state of being to a state of appearing, according to Debord?

7. What does Debord mean when he says that the spectacle should be viewed as "a weltanschauung"?

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

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

10. In Chapter 2, how have the forces of production changed the basis for human development?

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