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

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

3. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of the Universal.
(b) Family of All.
(c) Family of One.
(d) Family of Man.

4. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Blackness.
(c) Shadows.
(d) White.

5. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Colors.
(b) Real objects.
(c) Dragons.
(d) Faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.

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

3. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

4. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

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

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