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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. U.S. bombing of Afghanistan was conducted remotely from which of the following locations?
(a) Quantico, Virginia.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Tampa, Florida
(d) The Pentagon.

2. Sontag suggests that it is still possible to "feel the pulse of Christian iconography" in much war photography. Which famous work of art does she suggest can be seen in W. Eugene Smith's photograph of the woman in Minamata cradling her child?
(a) The Last Supper.
(b) Descent from the Cross.
(c) The Passion of Christ.
(d) The Pieta.

3. Sontag discusses the use of images of the dead to bolster hatred of the enemy. Which of the following recent events, aired on the Al Jazeera network, does she use as an example?
(a) The destruction of the Word Trade Center in 2001.
(b) The destruction of the Jenin refugee camp in 2002.
(c) The hanging of Sadam Hussein.
(d) The invasion of Iraq in 2003.

4. In transforming an event or person into something that can be owned, photographs:
(a) Objectify.
(b) Degrade.
(c) Commoditize.
(d) Elevate.

5. Sontag cites the Japanese narrative "Chushingura" in which the protagonist stops to appreciate the beauty of cherry blossoms one last time before committing ritual suicide as an example of which kind of shocking art?
(a) The type which is often underestimated for its emotional impact.
(b) The type which, through the narrative form of pathos, continually induces emotional reactions.
(c) The type which is only relative to a particular culture, and thus has little effect on outsiders.
(d) The type which is perennially performed, but which achieves less of a reaction with each performance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recounting a conversation with a Sarajevan woman, Sontag claims that when people are safe, they will feel which of the following toward atrocities committed abroad?

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

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

4. Andy Warhol silk screened which of the following images of war as his only direct statement about the atrocity of war?

5. To whom did the "Here Is New York" exhibit donate the proceeds?

(see the answer key)

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