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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 a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Manufacture.
(b) Clean up.
(c) Understand.
(d) Document.

2. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.
(a) Rich.
(b) Ugly.
(c) Animalistic.
(d) Bizarre.

3. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Power.
(b) Truth.
(c) Humor.
(d) Veracity.

4. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.
(a) Transpired.
(b) Touched others in the event.
(c) Begun.
(d) Been a success.

5. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Irrelevant.
(b) Positive.
(c) Obscure.
(d) Modern.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

2. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.

3. Photography requires dissociative __________ when the person is photographing an item or object.

4. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

5. Like surrealism, photography is often about ________ poverty and wealth in its contents or its themes.

(see the answer key)

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