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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the question plaguing most photographic theory of the 1970s, according to Sontag in this chapter?
(a) Is photography art?
(b) Does art matter?
(c) Does the subject exist?
(d) How is photography real?

2. The FSA program seems to indicate that when you photograph an object, you can _____________.
(a) Change it.
(b) Expose it.
(c) Believe in it.
(d) Understand it.

3. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Obscure.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Positive.
(d) Modern.

4. Unlike what the previous parts of the chapter say, Sontag goes on to say that photography can inform ____________.
(a) Change.
(b) Truth.
(c) Government.
(d) Morality.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Some theorize that photography allows the artist to capture __________ during an off-guard moment.

2. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.

3. Photography presupposes that _____________ can be a comprehensible totality, according to Sontag.

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

5. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.

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