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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Restrictions on media coverage of the British campaign in the Falklands was notable for which of the following reasons?
(a) They prohibited foreign journalists from covering the story.
(b) They were stricter than any censorship since the Crimean War.
(c) They allowed only government-sponsored journalists.
(d) They opened the event to full-scale television coverage.

2. Sontag criticizes American portrayals of U.S. military strategy, saying that war museums do not emphasize which of the following?
(a) U.S. use of disproportionate fire power.
(b) War crimes committed by United States officers.
(c) U.S. defeat in battle.
(d) The victims of U.S. military force.

3. Discussing the "co-spectatorship" and "indecency" of the image of the Vietcong suspect's execution, Sontag asserts which of the following?
(a) The presence of journalists was an invasion of the executed man's privacy.
(b) The photographer arranged the execution in advance.
(c) The shooting would not have occurred in the absence of journalists to record it.
(d) General Loan was unaware of the cameras at the time of the execution.

4. According to Sontag, a person who fails to recognize that people are capable of committing atrocities has failed to achieve which of the following?
(a) Intellectual development.
(b) Emotional security.
(c) Psychological or moral adulthood.
(d) Realistic perspective.

5. According to Sontag, _________ also influences the public's perception of war.
(a) Education.
(b) Anti-war sentiment.
(c) Hollywood.
(d) Government policies.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Many of the scenes in "Saving Private Ryan" were based on works by which famous World War I photographer?

3. Sontag argues that Goya's "The Disasters of War" was a turning point in the depiction of suffering. What does she cite as her reason?

4. Which nation's army was represented in Wall's photograph?

5. Sontag argues that Woolf's view, like many other "antiwar polemicists" is:

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