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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. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1818.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1839.

2. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) All humans.
(b) The world's darkness.
(c) Everything.
(d) Nothing.

3. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Diction.
(c) Power.
(d) Evidence.

4. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Permission.
(b) Encouragement.
(c) Denial.
(d) Joy.

5. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.
(a) Accord.
(b) Concord.
(c) Wonder.
(d) Truth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.

2. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

3. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."

4. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

5. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.

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