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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. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1839.

2. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) Plato's Republic.
(b) Plato's Cave.
(c) The Republic of Plato.
(d) The Loyalty of Plato.

3. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Forest.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Trivial.

4. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) Everything.
(b) All humans.
(c) The world's darkness.
(d) Nothing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

2. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

3. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

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

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