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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. Chapter 7 starts with a quote by _________.

2. What is the product of the leisure of localizations in Chapter 7?

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

4. What does Debord say planned environments have created?

5. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Debord's view on the progression of art?

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

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

4. How does Christianity play a role in measuring global time, in Debord's opinion?

5. What is the relationship between time and labor in Chapter 6?

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

7. How does Debord describe fascism?

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

9. What is the pseudo countryside, according to Debord?

10. What are the two aspects of culture that were lost as culture ended, according to Chapter 8?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the extended metaphor that the spectacle represents?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss proletariat and the bourgeoisie through the lens of Russia and how this impacted Debord's philosophies. Which of his views of Russia are colored by Marxist theories?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss both the narrative tone and structure of The Society of the Spectacle and their impact on the reader's experience.

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