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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) 1839.
(b) 1828.
(c) 1818.
(d) 1812.

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

3. According to the beginning of this chapter, photographs discover ___________.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Truth.
(c) Peace.
(d) Innocence.

4. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Nature.
(b) People.
(c) Paper.
(d) Social abjection.

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Achievement.
(b) Measurment.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.

2. Photography allows painting to focus on the purely __________ of the object being captured.

3. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

4. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.

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

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