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

2. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.
(a) Weird.
(b) Deformed.
(c) Unnatural.
(d) Exactly the same.

3. Whitman believed humanity was welded together in _________________ instead of separated from each other.
(a) Peace.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Truth.
(d) Commonality.

4. Whitman's view was challenged and entirely defeated mostly by accident by ________________.
(a) Government.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Laws.
(d) Photography.

5. As the text says, "Hobbesian man roams the streets, quite visible, with ____________ in his hair."
(a) Lace.
(b) Glitter.
(c) Blood.
(d) A ribbon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

3. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

4. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

5. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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