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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. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?
(a) Family of All.
(b) Family of the Universal.
(c) Family of One.
(d) Family of Man.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

2. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.

3. Alfred Stieglitz produced photographs which supported Whitman's ideas, termed euphoric _____________.

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

5. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

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