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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. Cyclical time is rooted in what kind of labor in Chapter 5?
(a) Production.
(b) Military.
(c) Agriculture.
(d) Political.

2. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.
(a) Hegel.
(b) Machiavelli.
(c) Ruge.
(d) Marx.

3. What is a necessary part of an abundant society, according to Chapter 8?
(a) Waste.
(b) Need.
(c) Hope.
(d) Fear.

4. What does thesis 207 say is necessary for the progress of ideas?
(a) Originality.
(b) Progress.
(c) Plagiarism.
(d) Research.

5. Where was universal history born, according to Chapter 7?
(a) In cities.
(b) In kingdoms.
(c) In countries.
(d) In dark corners.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is modern society's obsession with time, as described in Chapter 6?

2. Debord states at the end of Chapter 6 that the world has the ______ of another kind of time.

3. What must be historically manufactured in order to maintain the growth of the modern state bureaucracy in Chapter 7?

4. In thesis 173, who is architecture now being specifically created for?

5. Debord believes that pseudo-cyclical time is transformed by what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do societies organize time, according to Debord?

2. What is the importance of critical theory, according to Debord?

3. Why has Christianity been successful at adapting to spectacular society in Debord's view?

4. What is culture, according to Debord?

5. How does Debord describe fascism?

6. What is the difference between cyclical time and irreversible time in Debord's opinion?

7. What role does Debord believe leisure plays in spectacular society?

8. What are the alienating factors of urbanization in Chapter 7?

9. What are the two sides of culture that Debord proposes?

10. How is production time only pseudo-cyclical in Chapter 6?

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