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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Heroism of Vision.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.
(a) Universal.
(b) Honest.
(c) Peaceful.
(d) Scattered.

2. "_______- proud hosts may well pull out photographs of the place to show visitors how really splendid it is."
(a) School.
(b) Family.
(c) Baby.
(d) Wealth.

3. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.
(a) Touches.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Memory.
(d) Seeing.

4. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Darkened.
(b) Untrained.
(c) Illegal.
(d) Silly.

5. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.
(a) Subjects.
(b) Over exposure.
(c) Colors.
(d) Repetition.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.

2. What art has had to struggle to become a high art, though others have not had to work as hard to get to that title?

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

4. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

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

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