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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. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Pets.
(b) Cars.
(c) Mothers.
(d) Children.

2. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Shadows.
(c) White.
(d) Blackness.

3. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Sharp.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Proper.

4. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Statues.
(b) Objects.
(c) Scarecrows.
(d) Soldiers.

5. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Patriotism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Honor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

2. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

3. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.

4. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

5. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

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