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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. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Useful.
(b) Dark.
(c) Important.
(d) Dramatic.

2. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.
(a) Government.
(b) Truth.
(c) Change.
(d) Morality.

3. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Committment.
(b) Intervention.
(c) Closing their eyes.
(d) Feeling.

4. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of the Universal.
(b) Family of Man.
(c) Family of All.
(d) Family of One.

5. The __________ are not the same between painting and photography, though the devotion may be.
(a) Outcomes.
(b) Intentions.
(c) Subjects.
(d) Values.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of photographer is interested in the awakening consciousness?

2. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.

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

4. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

5. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

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