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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, "to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to _______".
(a) Highlight.
(b) Exclude.
(c) Alter.
(d) Include.

2. The Brady war pictures were taken of which of the following wars?
(a) The Crimean War.
(b) The American Civil War.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Spanish Civil War.

3. Sontag discusses the subtitle of "Here is New York" in some detail. What was this subtitle?
(a) "September 11th, 2001."
(b) "A Nation in Shock."
(c) "A Democracy of Images."
(d) "A City Mourns."

4. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?
(a) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(b) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.
(c) The bombing of Guernica and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(d) A mother holding her child while looking at the sky and Vitalis men's hair cream.

5. Sontag notes that at the time Virginia Woolf wrote "Three Guineas," war journalism was different than it is now. How was it different?
(a) It was more common.
(b) It was more disturbing.
(c) It was less graphic.
(d) It was less prevalent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag references an agreement in which the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Italy and Japan came together to renounce war. What is the name of this agreement?

2. Sontag mentions many factors which influence the way audiences receive war photography. Which of the following was NOT one of those factors?

3. The media may inform the public of war crimes and atrocities, but often fails to capture the:

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?

5. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:

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