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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.
(a) Young art.
(b) High art.
(c) Travesty.
(d) Rich art.

2. A photograph is reliable as it is contrived through a __________, hence putatively reliable, process.
(a) Mechanical.
(b) Technological.
(c) Effective.
(d) Solid.

3. Yet, photographs ________ what we often see more, according to the chapter.
(a) "See."
(b) "Understand."
(c) "Believe."
(d) "Listen to."

4. Who was rendered with Antonioni's typical flair and technique, featuring long shots, close-ups, jarring juxtaposition, and a focus on the ordinary?
(a) Ching Kon.
(b) Chang Kon.
(c) Chung Kuo.
(d) Chung Koan.

5. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Truthful.
(b) Honest.
(c) Understood.
(d) Beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. The film that Antonioni produced about the life of the Chinese was not shown in China until _____________.

2. The film director also focused on the most often ____________ features of Chinese life which were also humanizing.

3. Paintings, however accurate or realistic, are not the object, but a ___________ of that object.

4. Collecting photographs is easy. What is NOT one of the reasons for the ease of collecting photographs, according to this chapter?

5. The preference in question #154 is actually used as the very definition of modern __________, according to Sontag.

Short Essay Questions

1. How are photographs presented as art in the modern society, according to this chapter of the book?

2. What is one of the methods of falsifying photographs without changing the photograph itself?

3. Sontag makes a bold assertion in regards to photography and the work of some artists. What does she assert?

4. Why is a photograph of an object a more reliable way of looking at an object, according to the text in this chapter?

5. What do some primitive tribes think about the idea of taking pictures of other people, according to this chapter?

6. What do photographs do to reality, according to this final chapter of the book as written by Sontag?

7. What do some theories speculate that photography allows the artist to capture when they are taking the photograph?

8. What did the film Chung Kuo include that helped to present an accurate, though not flattering, picture of Chinese life?

9. What was the progression of photography in relation to its artistic status, according to this chapter?

10. What kinds of subjects does it seem that painting and photography seem to favor, according to the argument in this chapter?

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