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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 does Ruge doubt he will see in his lifetime?

2. What is the most important unit in the packaged commodity of time, according to Debord?

3. Critical theory has to be communicated in the language of __________ in Chapter 8.

4. Production time is time ______ in Chapter 6.

5. What religion does Debord believe is successful at adapting to spectacular society?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Debord believe the pilgrim is a representation of a person leaving cyclical time?

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Debord describe fascism?

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

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

Discuss the differences between socialism, communism, and capitalism, and their respective places within the society of the spectacle.

Essay Topic 2

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

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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