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

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

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

4. The continual process of product replacement leads to what in Chapter 3?
(a) Abundance.
(b) Desire.
(c) Fake gratification.
(d) True atonomy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 2 begins with a quote from ___.

2. The economy's __________ as an independent power also spells its doom, according to Debord.

3. What does Debord believe kept people from recognizing the emergence of an economy?

4. Marx favored what method to establish a socialist society?

5. What is the contradiction that commodity must resolve according to thesis 45?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the struggle between proletarian conception and bourgeois conception, as it is described at the beginning of Chapter 3?

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

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

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

6. What role do images play in the spectacle, as explained in thesis 2?

7. How does the spectacle "epitomize the prevailing model of social life," according to Debord?

8. Why is the loss of quality so obvious at every level of the language of the spectacle in Chapter 2?

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

10. How is the "commodity world" shown for what it really is, in Debord's opinion?

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