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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Images of the Gulf War were filtered to portray the "techno war." The public was exposed to only those images that portrayed which of the following sentiments?
(a) Savagery of conventional warfare, compared to American techno war.
(b) American military mercy.
(c) American military superiority over the enemy.
(d) Wondrous technological advancements.

2. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?
(a) The Boer War.
(b) The Spanish Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) World War II.

3. Sontag notes that post-colonial Africa is most commonly known to the American public based on a series of which of the following groups of images?
(a) Still images of freedom fighters, revolutionary independence movements, and guerrilla insurgencies.
(b) Images of American aid groups, support-a-child network assistants, and refugee camps.
(c) Photographs of the famine fields of Biafra, the Rwandan genocide, and the AIDS epidemic.
(d) Images of post-war development and national improvement.

4. A heated debate emerged when a weekly paper in Boston ran a video of which American journalist's execution in Pakistan?
(a) Ariel Sharon.
(b) Don McCullin.
(c) Daniel Pearl.
(d) Eddie Adams.

5. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?
(a) Ernst Friedrich.
(b) Larry Burroughs.
(c) Robert Capa.
(d) Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag argues that there are two extreme positions on a spectrum of war experience which create the same idea that images of war are no longer emotionally-jarring for an audience? Which two positions are they?

2. Sontag refutes the possibility of a suggestion she made in "On Photography". Which of the following ideas did she refute?

3. At the end of World War II, a group of journalists formed Magnum Photo Agency. Which of the following photographers was not among them?

4. Which of the following poets expressed concerns about the effect of national-scale events on human sensibility in 1800?

5. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?

(see the answer key)

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