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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Sontag discusses "Here Is New York," a photography exhibit depicting September 11th. Whom did the organizers ask to contribute photographs?
(a) Professional artists only.
(b) Photojournalists only.
(c) Anyone who captured an image of the tragedy.
(d) Amateurs only.

2. Which of the following terms does Sontag define as a commonly used term for those whose profession like journalists takes them into war zones?
(a) War tourism.
(b) Conflict exploitation.
(c) War voyeurism.
(d) Atrocity tourism.

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

4. Fenton received directions from the War Office to do which of the following?
(a) Graphically depict the horrors of war.
(b) Glorify war through patriotic images.
(c) Generate propaganda for Britain.
(d) Avoid photographing the ill, wounded, dying and dead.

5. Which of the following thinkers argued that people take "no small" delight in witnessing the suffering of others?
(a) Edmund Burke.
(b) Renee Descartes.
(c) Plato.
(d) Aristotle.

Short Answer Questions

1. In portraying horrors, Leonardo da Vinci encouraged artists to be:

2. Sontag claims that images of suffering in Africa send a double message. Which of the following best represents that message?

3. In its early days, photography was thought to:

4. Which of the following magazines was NOT devoted entirely to photography?

5. Sontag discusses a famous series of photographs taken by Tyler Hicks, titled "A Nation Challenged." What does this series depict?

(see the answer key)

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