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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Chemical engineer.
(b) Novelist.
(c) President.
(d) Poet.

2. When did the largest collection photographic project take place with the help of the FSA?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1890.
(c) 1828.
(d) 1928.

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

4. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Official.
(b) Real.
(c) Possible.
(d) True.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The program with the FSA resulted in political and social _________ being placed on the rural poor.

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

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

4. Surrealism is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.

5. In general, modern photography claims that the ___________ is irrelevant within the picture's creation.

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