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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs can mingle documentation with __________ rendering, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Artistic.
(b) Watery.
(c) Just.
(d) Truthful.

2. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.
(a) Film slides.
(b) Books.
(c) Frames.
(d) Cameras.

3. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Permission.
(c) Joy.
(d) Denial.

4. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.
(a) Pity.
(b) Power.
(c) Attention.
(d) Pressure.

5. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Deity.
(b) Worth.
(c) Pity.
(d) Inspection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs cannot ___________ of something and are therefore obviously reproductive or mimetic.

2. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.

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

4. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

5. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.

(see the answer key)

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