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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 presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.
(a) People.
(b) Reality.
(c) Children.
(d) Nature.

2. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Trivial.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Forest.

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

4. To what is photography continuously compared within the chapters of the book?
(a) Painting.
(b) Carving.
(c) Sculpting.
(d) Stage plays.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Or is photography a ________ using an incidentally mimetic process, as referenced by Sontag in the book?

3. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.

4. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

5. What is NOT one of the ways that surrealism is described by Sontag in this particular chapter?

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