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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag argues that we are most disappointed to discover that which type of photographs have been staged?
(a) Images depicting everyday life.
(b) Images depicting intimate climaxes.
(c) Images depicting spontaneous events.
(d) Images depicting gory battle scenes.

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

3. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?
(a) More than one million.
(b) More than one thousand.
(c) Less than one hundred.
(d) Less five hundred.

4. Which of the following pairs of images appeared side-by-side in a 1937 issue of "Life"?
(a) A dying Republican soldier and a mother holding her child while looking at the sky.
(b) A dying Republican soldier and Vitalis men's hair cream.
(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. Photographic representations of the Vietnam War was essential to promoting:
(a) Patriotic sentiment.
(b) International relations.
(c) The anti-war movement.
(d) New methods of communication.

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag criticizes American portrayals of U.S. military strategy, saying that war museums do not emphasize which of the following?

2. Sontag argues that a photograph by which of these photographers triggered mass outcry against the Vietnam War?

3. Sontag lists which of the following as images that the artist "takes"?

4. Who took the infamous image of Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Vietcong suspect in the street?

5. Sebastiao Salgado's work called "Migrations: Humanity in Transition" was often criticized as being:

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