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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Peace.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Joy.

2. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Dark.
(b) Important.
(c) Dramatic.
(d) Useful.

3. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Surrealist.
(b) Impressionist.
(c) Nihilist.
(d) Realist.

4. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.
(a) Surrealistic.
(b) Documentary.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Real.

5. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?
(a) Joyful.
(b) Irrational.
(c) Anecdotal.
(d) Dated.

Short Answer Questions

1. Some theorize that the practice of photography allows the disclosure of a ___________ truth.

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

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

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

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

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