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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 is like a _____________ because it can't make anything new - it can only judge the past.
(a) Power trip.
(b) Wild ride.
(c) Death trip.
(d) True ego.

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

3. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) High income.
(b) Feral.
(c) Low income.
(d) Freak.

4. Photography allows all of the goals of surrealism to conflate into a _________ art, according to Sontag.
(a) Fine.
(b) Universal.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Understanding.

5. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Rules.
(b) Laws.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Morals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?

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

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

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

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