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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. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Color.
(b) Reality.
(c) Scale.
(d) Value.

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

3. 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.

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

5. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Feeling.
(b) Closing their eyes.
(c) Intervention.
(d) Committment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

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

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

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

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

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