Seduction

THE BAUDRILLARD QUIZ

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1. Where was Jean Baudrillard born

Belgium

France

Wales

2. Which of the below offers the best definition of Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality


Individuals can longer distinguish reality from fantasy

Individuals can no longer distinguish hyperbole from reality

Individuals can no longer distinguish one T.V. channel from another

3. Baudrillard's early work, The Mirror of Production, is a critique of:


 The Frankfurt School

Reflective Sociology

Classical Marxism

4. What does Baudrillard mean by 'symbolic exchange'?

The exchange of goods based on the human need for sacrifice, excess and the giving and receiving of gifts  

The exchange of symbols

The exchange of cymbals, probably by musicians

5. What according to Baudrillard are postmodern societies based upon?


Stipulation

Stimulation

Simulation

6. What did Baudrillard mean by the idea of 'immanent reversal'?

everything would go backwards

immanence would go backwards

everything would turn into its opposite, because of a reversal of meaning and effects

7. What for Baudrillard is the 'perfect crime' ?


To rob a bank of its bullion and not get caught

The manner in which the bourgeois class continually exploits the working class

The 'destruction of the real' by the modern media.

8. What is the significance of  seduction in Baudrillard's later writings?

Like all men of a certain age Baudrillard enjoys being seduced

Seduction is the playful (and meaningless) alternative to capitalism's emphasis on production and utility

Seduction is the revolutionary undermining and critique of capitalism

9. In his book America, Baudrillard refers to that country as:


'The last primitive society' 

'Modernity at large'

'A great dessert of a place'

10. Which Hollywood blockbuster movie is said to be based on the work of Baudrillard?


Mary Poppins

Pulp Fiction

The Matrix