View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Killing Fields" depicts which of the following?
(a) The casualties of Bunker Hill.
(b) The atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.
(c) The mass deaths during the Spanish Civil War.
(d) The dead and dying of the Korean War.

2. After World War I, the general public thought of the War as:
(a) A hopeless waste of human energy and life.
(b) A clean, necessary and effectively fought war.
(c) The war to end all wars.
(d) An atrocity committed on the world stage.

3. Modern society, Sontag argues, is a "society of _______".
(a) Spectacle.
(b) Sympathy.
(c) Shock.
(d) Sheep.

4. "Without Sanctuary" was a book of photographs taken of which of the following atrocities?
(a) The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.
(b) Japanese internment in the U.S.
(c) The Rwanda atrocities.
(d) Lynchings of black Americans in the 1930s.

5. Which Dreiser novel does Sontag reference in the final chapter?
(a) "The Crucible."
(b) "An American Tragedy."
(c) "Sister of War."
(d) "Death of a Salesman."

Short Answer Questions

1. Sontag lists three impulses which may be satisfied by viewing images of atrocities. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

2. Underneath feelings of apathy, Sontag contends are which of the following feelings?

3. Sontag claims that sentimentality is often accompanied by which of the following?

4. Sontag claims that there is no way to guarantee which of the following?

5. How many images did the "Here Is New York" exhibit originally receive?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 309 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample