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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Honor.
(b) Identity.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Patriotism.

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Value.
(b) Color.
(c) Reality.
(d) Scale.

3. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?
(a) The Republic of Plato.
(b) Plato's Republic.
(c) The Loyalty of Plato.
(d) Plato's Cave.

4. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A sense.
(b) A shape.
(c) A word.
(d) A picture.

5. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Diction.
(b) Measurement.
(c) Power.
(d) Evidence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

2. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

3. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.

4. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

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

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