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

2. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.
(a) Innovation.
(b) Honor.
(c) Patriotism.
(d) Identity.

3. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Worth.
(b) Deity.
(c) Pity.
(d) Inspection.

4. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.
(a) Fetishism.
(b) Naughtiness.
(c) Enjoyment.
(d) Permission.

5. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Peace.
(c) Understanding.
(d) Joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Edward Steichen photographed __________ objects to demonstrate technique and insight within photography.

2. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

3. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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

5. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?

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