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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. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Objects.
(b) Statues.
(c) Scarecrows.
(d) Soldiers.

2. __________ is difficult, tedious, and performed by skilled experts, according to Sontag in this book.
(a) Painting.
(b) Photography.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Carving.

3. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Lepers.
(b) Insane.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Deformed.

4. Even banal or vapid objects can be made _____________ by being photographed, according to this chapter.
(a) Understood.
(b) Beautiful.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Honest.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

2. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.

3. How do beautiful things begin to seem cliched and dull? Through their ____________, things become cliched.

4. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

5. The photographic __________ need not capture or immortalize transient defects, as it was now seen in society.

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