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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. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Cars.
(b) Mothers.
(c) Children.
(d) Pets.

2. Photography is a ___________ experience because cameras are cheap, readily available, and easy to use.
(a) Younger.
(b) Rich.
(c) Democratizing.
(d) Powerful.

3. Whitman wanted people to begin to look at the essential ____________ of a person in order to define a person or object.
(a) Limitations.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Value.
(d) Flaws.

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

5. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.
(a) Humanism.
(b) Realism.
(c) Truthism.
(d) Picarism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the groups of people that Arbus photographed during her career?

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

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

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

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

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