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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag calls for the reader's sympathy for the wounded Taliban soldier whose pain graced the cover of "The New York Times" by suggesting which of the following?
(a) The man deserved greater respect for serving his government in war.
(b) The man's loved ones would discover the images one day.
(c) The man was a human being.
(d) The man's suffering should be a private affair.

2. The footage from a 1898 charge of Colonel Roosevelt's volunteer cavalry, the Rough Riders, was replaced with film of a staged charge later for which of the following reasons?
(a) Colonel Roosevelt was unsatisfied with the footage.
(b) The photographer lost the film reel.
(c) The lighting on the day of the event was insufficient.
(d) The footage of the actual event was not dramatic enough.

3. Sontag argues that journalists who photograph war are often received with resistance. She suggests that the desire to capture images of suffering is often described in which of the following ways?
(a) Cruel and unusual.
(b) Cruel and torturous.
(c) Exploitative and perverse.
(d) Vulgar and low.

4. Sontag argues that which of the following effects keeps the television viewer's attention "light", "mobile" and fairly "indifferent" to the images on the screen?
(a) Advertising.
(b) Image-glut.
(c) Overload.
(d) Media coverage.

5. Neither compassion nor moral indignation would be enough to do which of the following?
(a) Inspire change.
(b) Stop suffering.
(c) Motivate action.
(d) End violence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the "CNN effect" as discussed by Sontag?

2. Modern society, Sontag argues, is a "society of _______".

3. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?

4. Which of the following terms does Sontag define as a commonly used term for those whose profession like journalists takes them into war zones?

5. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?

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