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Members of the group who attended the Marxist Work Week in
1923 which led to the launching of the Institut: Friedrich Pollock, Georg Lukacs, Felix Weil, Karl Wittfogel, Rose Wittfogel, Christiane Sorge, Karl Korsch

THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL QUIZ

Try this beginners quiz on The Frankfurt School. There is no monetary prize for answering all 10 questions correctly, such a prize would merely serve to uphold the forces of commodity fetishism!

Max Horkheimer (1895-1973): Director of the Frankfurt School 1931

Theodor Adorno (1903-69): A leading member of the School

The building which housed The Institute for Social Research in 1950

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1. It is often claimed that the members of the early Frankfurt School were attempting to synthesise the works of Karl Marx and the works of:

Thomas Malthus

Sigmund Freud

Adam Smith

2. Who became the Director of the Frankfurt School in 1931?

Max Horkheimer Max Weber Theodor Adorno

3. What term did Adorno and Horkheimer use to refer to the modern media?

The Fourth Estate Distraction MediaCulture Manufacturers Culture Industries

4. When they had to flee the Nazis in which U.S. University did most of the members of the school set up an alternative?

University of Chicago

Columbia University

Harvard University

5. Adorno in particular suggested that fascist societies such as Nazi-Germany and Mussolini's Italy were based upon and creative of a particular type of human personality.

The Authoritarian Personality The Authoritative Personality The Organised Personality

6. What is the widely used term for the type of theoretical analysis begun by the early Frankfurt School and now used by many contemporary social theorists?

Philosophical Anthropology

Critical Theory

Creative Theory

7. Who wrote the book 'One Dimensional Man'?

Max Horkheimer Theodor Adorno Herbert Marcuse

8. For the Frankfurt School the problem with modernity is that it is a product of the Enlightenment which was based upon:

Instrumental Rationality

Substantive Rationality

Instrumental Irrationality

9. According to the Frankfurt School what type of society is produced by the capitalist media?

An inherently informed society

A mass society

A big society

10. Siegfried Kracauer referred to the modern media as Distraction Industries. What precisely are these media said to be distracting us from:

What is on the other channel?

An impending attack from a terrorist group?

Our real and true needs?