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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 yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) A need.
(b) Permission.
(c) A push.
(d) A desire.

2. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Soldiers.
(b) Scarecrows.
(c) Objects.
(d) Statues.

3. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) President.
(b) Chemical engineer.
(c) Novelist.
(d) Poet.

4. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Joe.
(b) Phillip.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Walt.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

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

5. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

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