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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. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.
(a) Heterogeneous.
(b) Peaceful.
(c) Homogeneous.
(d) Hand-holding.

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

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

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

5. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Art.
(b) Technology.
(c) Accomplishment.
(d) Committment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

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

3. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

4. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

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

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