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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. Debord uses whose definition of culture in Chapter 8?

2. Which Shakespeare play does Chapter 5 quote?

3. What does the quote at the beginning of Chapter 6 say that even the homeless can enjoy?

4. What does Debord believe is ever-present in the process of the production of things?

5. What are the temples of frenetic consumption in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question is being raised by a school of sociology originating in America in Chapter 8?

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

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

4. What is the pseudo community in Chapter 7?

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

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

7. What is the relationship between time and the bourgeoisie, according to Debord?

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

9. What is the new architecture that Debord contends is specifically designed for the poor?

10. According to Debord, what is the problem when an ideology becomes the goal and not the means of a revolution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is ironic in both the tone and content of The Society of the Spectacle?

Essay Topic 2

What is the relationship between production and the economy described by Debord, in terms of moving from survival to surplus?

Essay Topic 3

How is the society of the spectacle "ideology par excellence"? What is the nature of ideology, according to Debord?

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