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

2. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Normal.
(b) Perfect.
(c) Honest.
(d) Rich.

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A sense.
(b) A shape.
(c) A word.
(d) A picture.

4. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.
(a) Touches.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Memory.
(d) Seeing.

5. Like modern art, according to Sontag, photography lowers ___________ in those who view it.
(a) Trust.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Inhibitions.
(d) Sensitivities.

Short Answer Questions

1. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.

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

3. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

4. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

5. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

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