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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Most theories of art, according to Sontag, have only proven to be __________ in retrospect as well as in their own time.
(a) Worthless.
(b) Truths.
(c) Fads.
(d) Cutting edge.

2. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Phillip.
(b) Terrence.
(c) Walt.
(d) Joe.

3. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Class.
(b) Art.
(c) Frame.
(d) Authors.

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Obscure.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Modern.
(d) Positive.

5. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Realism.
(b) Humanism.
(c) Picarism.
(d) Truthism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.

2. In 1839, photography was briefly attacked as something ___________ and disgraceful, according to the book.

3. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

4. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

5. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

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