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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Joy.
(c) Peace.
(d) Understanding.

3. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Government.
(c) Change.
(d) Morality.

4. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Change it.
(b) Expose it.
(c) Believe in it.
(d) Understand it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

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

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

4. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?

5. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

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