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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.
(a) Reality.
(b) Justice.
(c) Accidents.
(d) Truth.

2. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Animals.
(b) Society.
(c) Class.
(d) Books.

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Confusing.
(b) Stationary.
(c) Death.
(d) Frozen in time.

4. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.
(a) Truth.
(b) Change.
(c) Morality.
(d) Government.

5. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) Permission.
(b) A need.
(c) A push.
(d) A desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.

2. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

3. The project with the FSA was enormously influential in depicting to America the __________ face of man and his struggles.

4. What kind of photographer is interested in the picturesque when he/she is taking photographs?

5. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

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