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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Unnatural.
(b) Exactly the same.
(c) Deformed.
(d) Weird.

2. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Understanding.
(b) Mimetic.
(c) Universal.
(d) Fine.

3. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?
(a) Whitman.
(b) Steichen.
(c) Stieglitz.
(d) Arbus.

4. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.
(a) Mementos.
(b) Arguments.
(c) Stories.
(d) Artifacts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?

2. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?

3. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.

4. Whitman wanted people to begin to see that they needed to accept the _________ within the society.

5. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.

(see the answer key)

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