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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) White.
(b) Nothing.
(c) Blackness.
(d) Shadows.

2. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Positive.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Obscure.
(d) Modern.

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Dark.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) Irrelevant.

4. 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.

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

6. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.
(a) Avoidance.
(b) Money.
(c) Looking at.
(d) Worship.

7. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Hand-holding.
(b) Heterogeneous.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Homogeneous.

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

9. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) Everything.
(b) Nothing.
(c) All humans.
(d) The world's darkness.

10. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Power.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Diction.

11. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.
(a) Stories.
(b) Artifacts.
(c) Mementos.
(d) Arguments.

12. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Scary.
(b) Normal.
(c) Freaks.
(d) Deadly.

13. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Sharp.
(d) Proper.

14. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) A need.
(b) A desire.
(c) A push.
(d) Permission.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

2. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

3. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.

4. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.

5. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.

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