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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Image-World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of film did Antonioni make about the Chinese culture and family life?
(a) Documentary.
(b) Action.
(c) Comedy.
(d) Drama.

2. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Dated.
(d) Anecdotal.

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Books.
(b) Class.
(c) Animals.
(d) Society.

4. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.
(a) Family.
(b) Portrait.
(c) Album.
(d) Landscape.

5. Early in their history, photographs entered __________ where they were displayed in shows as were paintings.
(a) Grocery stores.
(b) Museums.
(c) Schools.
(d) Hotels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

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

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

4. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

5. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.

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