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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the chief product of present day society, according to Chapter 1?

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

3. Through the commodity, what established itself as the dominant science in Debord's opinion?

4. What science did the Utopians take as their model?

5. In the quote from Red Flag at the beginning of Chapter 3, there is the proletarian conception and the _________ conception.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What effect did education of the proletariat have on revolution, according to Debord?

4. What historical moment does the spectacle correspond to, according to Debord?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Debord's dual interpretations of time and how time operates within the spectacle.

Essay Topic 2

What is the extended metaphor that the spectacle represents?

Essay Topic 3

What is the meaning behind the title of the book?

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