Regarding the Pain of Others Test | Final Test - Medium

Final Test

This test consists of 5 multiple choice, 5 short answer, and 0 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Directions: Circle the correct answer.

1. Which of the following included close-up images of soldiers wounded by war in his/her 1938 film?
a) Anonymous.
b) Virginia Woolf.
c) Abel Gance.
d) Ernst Friedrich.

2. Sontag lists many effects of photographs depicting war victims. Which of the following was not one of the effects she lists?
a) "They reiterate."
b) "They inspire."
c) "They create the illusion of consensus."
d) "They simplify."

3. Sontag argues that technological advances changed the way the public understands war by:
a) Allowing journalists to represent the war in detail as it happens.
b) Producing mass casualties and horrific destruction.
c) Shielding the public from scenes of the wounded and dying.
d) Improving the power and accuracy...
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