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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which painting does Sontag "find it difficult" to look at?
(a) Picasso's "Guernica."
(b) Titian's painting of the flaying of Marsyas.
(c) Da Vinci's "The Last Supper."
(d) Callot's "The Miseries and Misfortunes of War."

2. According to Sontag, photographs of atrocities are best received if they are:
(a) So artistically simple as to seem uncomposed.
(b) Well-lit and high-contrast.
(c) Close-ups of compelling scenes.
(d) Images of familiar places or people.

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

4. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "makes"?
(a) Drawings and paintings.
(b) Paintings and photographs.
(c) Etchings and drawings.
(d) Photographs and etchings.

5. Sontag discusses one year in European history in which the photograph was able to truly capture the nature of human atrocities. Which year was it?
(a) 1912.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1902.
(d) 1945.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag compares the desire for images of people in pain to which other recurrent type of image?

2. The mass media bombarded viewers with shocking images because:

3. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:

4. Photography on the war front was first banned in an organized fashion during which of the following wars?

5. Audiences may question the veracity of photographs because:

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