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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Men.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Tourists.

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

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

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Limitations.
(b) Flaws.
(c) Value.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

2. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

3. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

4. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.

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

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