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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. It is __________ to distinguish one photographer's work from another, according to the opinion of Sontag.
(a) Unrelated.
(b) Easy.
(c) Unnecessary.
(d) Difficult.

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

4. What kind of takeover did photography's influence lead to, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Roptist.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Cartier-Bresson, in the introduction of his book, justified his unwillingness to use _________ by citing technical limitations.

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

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

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

5. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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