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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Colors.
(c) Faith.
(d) Real objects.

2. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Realism.
(b) Picarism.
(c) Humanism.
(d) Truthism.

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

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Wonder.
(b) Truth.
(c) Concord.
(d) Accord.

5. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Criticisms.
(b) Superficial distinctions.
(c) Photography.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

2. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

4. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

5. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

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