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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. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Accomplishment.
(b) Technology.
(c) Art.
(d) Committment.

2. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.
(a) Peace.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Truth.
(d) Beauty.

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

4. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Manufacture.
(b) Understand.
(c) Clean up.
(d) Document.

5. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Roptist.
(b) Surrealist.
(c) Nihilist.
(d) Realist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

2. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

3. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.

4. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.

5. Photography freed ____________ from the reproductive arts, according to Sontag's writing in this book.

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