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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. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.
(a) Innocence.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Morals.
(d) Rules.

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

3. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) Children.
(b) The underworld.
(c) Masturbation.
(d) Criminal activity.

4. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Community.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Identity.
(d) Truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

3. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

4. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

5. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.

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