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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Photographic Evangels.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What movement is capricious and inadvertent, according to Sontag?
(a) Nihilist.
(b) Impressionist.
(c) Surrealist.
(d) Realist.

2. American photographers feel the country is simply too _______ to be understood - instead it must simply be catalogued.
(a) Important.
(b) Big.
(c) Good.
(d) Old.

3. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Ideas.
(b) Morals.
(c) Laws.
(d) Rules.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The main question becomes whether photography is a high art or if it is merely a __________ reproduction by a machine.

2. Painting is usually done of ________ subjects, while photography uses different subjects in its frames.

3. Painting allows for __________ vision, while photography does not require this sort of vision.

4. Both painting and photography share a devotion to traditional __________ within their finished pieces.

5. "Despite the efforts of contemporary photographers to exorcise the _____________, something lingers."

(see the answer key)

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