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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) Hand-holding.
(c) Homogeneous.
(d) Peaceful.

2. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Rich.
(c) Dark corners.
(d) Ignored.

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

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

5. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Phillip.
(b) Walt.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Joe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

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

3. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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

5. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

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