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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Surrealism, like photography, seeks to look at ___________ objects, according to those who deem them so.
(a) Important.
(b) Dark.
(c) Useful.
(d) Dramatic.

2. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Beauty.
(b) Forest.
(c) Trivial.
(d) Darkness.

3. According to Sontag, photographs are held to be definitive ___________, though Sontag does not support this idea with facts.
(a) Measurement.
(b) Power.
(c) Evidence.
(d) Diction.

4. What might separate the whole of humanity, according to Whitman in this chapter of this book?
(a) Photography.
(b) Criticisms.
(c) Superficial distinctions.
(d) Beauty.

5. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Mimetic.
(b) Truthful.
(c) Sharp.
(d) Proper.

Short Answer Questions

1. The question becomes whether photography is a ___________ process of documentation via machine, or not.

2. Photography has become a bit of a surrealist art, not a/an __________ art, but close to it, according to Sontag.

3. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

4. The real problem with bringing ________ photographs into mainstream is a procedure which contradicts the nature of most photographs.

5. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

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