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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Photographic Evangels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Technique.
(b) Approach.
(c) Structure.
(d) Alignment.

2. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Nihilist.
(c) Realist.
(d) Impressionist.

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Confusing.
(b) Stationary.
(c) Frozen in time.
(d) Death.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.
(a) Horror.
(b) Happiness.
(c) Real.
(d) Music.

5. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Nature.
(b) People.
(c) Paper.
(d) Social abjection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Even though photographs are generally consistent, _________ tastes in photography exist and change over time.

2. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."

3. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.

4. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.

5. Sontag says that some artists ___________ for the express purpose of having it photographed.

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