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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In Plato's Cave.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.
(a) Reality.
(b) Their days.
(c) Their food.
(d) Their families.

2. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Humor.
(b) Power.
(c) Veracity.
(d) Truth.

3. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.
(a) Art.
(b) Accomplishment.
(c) Committment.
(d) Technology.

4. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.
(a) Inspection.
(b) Deity.
(c) Worth.
(d) Pity.

5. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.
(a) A sense.
(b) A shape.
(c) A picture.
(d) A word.

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

2. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.

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

4. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?

5. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.

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