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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Sontag, photojournalism was used post-9/11 to:
(a) Inform the public of the event.
(b) Promote messages of peace and pacificism.
(c) Increase support for military action.
(d) Increase sensitivity toward Middle-Eastern Americans.

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

3. Ultimately, Sontag claims that war is:
(a) Tragic.
(b) Avoidable.
(c) Perennial.
(d) Horrific.

4. Faced with "information overload," people remember a photograph because it is a quick way of storing information, much like which of the following strategies?
(a) Quotations, maxims and proverbs.
(b) Quotations, mnenics and memory games.
(c) Maxims, proverbs and songs.
(d) Jingles, mnemonics and rhymes.

5. Which of the following images was often thought to represent a mother, looking tellingly into the sky during an air raid of the Spanish Civil War?
(a) "Land Distribution Meeting, Extremadura, Spain, 1936"
(b) "Mother and Child, Barcelona, Spain, 1936"
(c) "War Against War!"
(d) "Guernica."

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?

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

3. Sontag observes that "Here Is New York" had no need for captions, but suggests that:

4. According to Sontag, anti-war sentiment:

5. Sontag claims that "good taste" is always _________ when invoked by institutions.

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