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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. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?
(a) Lepers.
(b) Insane.
(c) Prostitutes.
(d) Deformed.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Darkened.
(b) Illegal.
(c) Silly.
(d) Untrained.

3. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Deity.
(b) Pity.
(c) Worth.
(d) Inspection.

4. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.
(a) Normal.
(b) Honest.
(c) Perfect.
(d) Rich.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

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

3. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

4. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

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

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