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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.
(a) Innocent.
(b) Happy.
(c) Dense.
(d) Cliche.

2. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) Children.
(b) People.
(c) Nature.
(d) Reality.

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

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Superficial distinctions.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Criticisms.
(d) Photography.

5. __________ is difficult, tedious, and performed by skilled experts, according to Sontag in this book.
(a) Sculpting.
(b) Photography.
(c) Carving.
(d) Painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

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

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

4. ___________ often reveal beauty that is not normally seen, according to Sontag in this chapter.

5. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

(see the answer key)

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