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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) Patriotism.
(b) Identity.
(c) Honor.
(d) Innovation.

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

3. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.
(a) Children.
(b) Women.
(c) Priests.
(d) Prisoners.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.

2. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

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

4. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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

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