View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.
(a) Cliche.
(b) Dense.
(c) Happy.
(d) Innocent.

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

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

4. Modern photography seems to admit that __________ is the sum total of all art in photography.
(a) Approach.
(b) Alignment.
(c) Structure.
(d) Technique.

5. In a sense, according to Sontag, photography actually helps to ____________ beauty as society defines it.
(a) Clean up.
(b) Document.
(c) Manufacture.
(d) Understand.

Short Answer Questions

1. "For the modernist promotion of naive art always contains a _______; that one continue to honor its hidden claim to sophistication."

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

3. It becomes imperative, in order to avoid cliche, to constantly be discovering new sources of ___________.

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

5. In later times, photography came to be viewed as an art, then as a high art, and today it is esteemed as a modern __________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 213 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample