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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Events enter the collective memory, not by a natural process of remembering but by:
(a) Subconscious selection.
(b) Repeated exposure.
(c) Government propaganda.
(d) Active designation of significance.
2. Which technological advancement changed the way war was photographed after World War I?
(a) Transportation.
(b) Lightweight cameras.
(c) Lighting equipment.
(d) Weaponry.
3. The conflicts in the Balkans in the 1990s stood out to many onlookers for which of the following reasons?
(a) Government propaganda incited great public interest.
(b) The media hyped the conflicts by airing footage during each broadcast.
(c) The violence was more extreme than other conflicts of the era.
(d) Most people believe that atrocities like that do not happen in Europe.
4. According to Sontag, war journalism first developed during which of the following two wars?
(a) The Crimean War and the American Civil War.
(b) World War II and the Vietnam War.
(c) The American Revolution and the American Civil War.
(d) World War I and World War II.
5. Sontag argues that the most extensive kind of censorship is which of the following?
(a) The censorship implied by public sensibility.
(b) Military censorship.
(c) Government censorship.
(d) The self-censorship of broadcast companies.
Short Answer Questions
1. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:
2. Which of the following is true about representations of the dead or dying in American media?
3. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?
4. U.S. bombing of Afghanistan was conducted remotely from which of the following locations?
5. Sontag notes that at the time Virginia Woolf wrote "Three Guineas," war journalism was different than it is now. How was it different?
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