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

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Reality.
(b) Value.
(c) Color.
(d) Scale.

3. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) High income.
(b) Low income.
(c) Feral.
(d) Freak.

4. What is NOT one of the things which helped to give photography a boost in popularity when it was discovered these things could be done?
(a) Altering.
(b) Burning.
(c) Tampering.
(d) Retouching.

5. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) The Republic of Plato.
(b) Plato's Cave.
(c) Plato's Republic.
(d) The Loyalty of Plato.

Short Answer Questions

1. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.

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

3. 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?

4. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

5. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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