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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Change it.
(b) Understand it.
(c) Believe in it.
(d) Expose it.

2. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Hand-holding.
(c) Heterogeneous.
(d) Homogeneous.

3. Most continue to claim that photography is entirely _________, according to the research of Sontag.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Innocent.
(d) Incomplete.

4. By __________, photography became an acceptable part of modern day life, according to the book.
(a) 1854.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1800.
(d) 1828.

5. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Alignment.
(b) Technique.
(c) Approach.
(d) Structure.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

2. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?

3. Early in their history, photographs entered __________ where they were displayed in shows as were paintings.

4. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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