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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. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Impressionist.
(b) Realist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Nihilist.

2. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.
(a) Real.
(b) Official.
(c) Possible.
(d) True.

3. Photography, like other surrealist arts, is itself ___________ and yet it is transitory, according to Sontag.
(a) Frozen in time.
(b) Confusing.
(c) Death.
(d) Stationary.

4. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Permission.
(b) Naughtiness.
(c) Fetishism.
(d) Enjoyment.

5. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.
(a) Laws.
(b) Government.
(c) Photography.
(d) Mirrors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.

2. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

3. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

4. The surrealist movement courts _________ and incongruous juxtaposition in its use.

5. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

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