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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Plato's Cave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Their food.
(b) Their families.
(c) Their days.
(d) Reality.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Technology.
(b) Committment.
(c) Accomplishment.
(d) Art.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

3. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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

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

(see the answer key)

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