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

2. The FSA project took pictures of __________ groups living in rural areas and experiencing rural problems.
(a) Low income.
(b) High income.
(c) Feral.
(d) Freak.

3. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.
(a) Scale.
(b) Reality.
(c) Color.
(d) Value.

4. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Individuals.
(c) Groups.
(d) Families.

5. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Animals.
(b) Society.
(c) Class.
(d) Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. However, photography can also make truly beautiful things seem _________, according to Sontag.

2. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

3. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.

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

5. In the conventional wisdom right now, only beautiful things are ______________.

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