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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. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.
(a) True desire.
(b) The ether.
(c) The world.
(d) God.

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

3. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?
(a) Shadows.
(b) Blackness.
(c) White.
(d) Nothing.

4. The camera's drive toward enabling _______________ use promotes the use of photography as a means of pornography.
(a) Illegal.
(b) Darkened.
(c) Untrained.
(d) Silly.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography seems to establish what is worth __________ and what should be in a photograph.

2. Photographs also warp our sense of _________ as they are always minute in comparison to the real object.

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

4. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.

5. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

(see the answer key)

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