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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. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Evidence.
(b) Power.
(c) Diction.
(d) Measurement.

2. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.
(a) Lighting.
(b) Original beauty.
(c) Colors.
(d) Truth.

3. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Tampering.
(b) Burning.
(c) Retouching.
(d) Altering.

4. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Truth.
(b) Veracity.
(c) Power.
(d) Humor.

5. Some photographers are ___________, seeking to document and visually examine the world.
(a) Students.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Moralists.
(d) Scientists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

2. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.

3. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

5. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

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