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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who helped to lead the largest collective photographic project ever in the United States?
(a) Roy Emerson Stryker.
(b) Eleanor Roosevelt.
(c) Woodrow Wilson.
(d) Abraham Lincoln.

2. What is NOT one of the things Sontag points out that photography seeks to look at?
(a) Social abjection.
(b) People.
(c) Paper.
(d) Nature.

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

4. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.
(a) Committment.
(b) Intervention.
(c) Closing their eyes.
(d) Feeling.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

2. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

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

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

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

(see the answer key)

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