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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the acronym FSA stand for in relation to the most ambitious collection photographic project?
(a) Farm Settler Administration.
(b) Farm Service Association.
(c) Farm Security Administration.
(d) Farm Service Administration.

2. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Individual.
(b) Word.
(c) Image.
(d) Color.

3. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Prisoners.
(b) Priests.
(c) Women.
(d) Children.

4. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.
(a) Wealthy.
(b) Common.
(c) Lying.
(d) Darker.

5. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) Low income.
(b) High income.
(c) Feral.
(d) Freak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

2. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

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

4. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

5. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

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