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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 art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.
(a) Encouragement.
(b) Permission.
(c) Denial.
(d) Joy.

2. A photograph seems to be taken in order to guarantee that the event has actually ___________.
(a) Been a success.
(b) Begun.
(c) Transpired.
(d) Touched others in the event.

3. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Scarecrows.
(b) Objects.
(c) Statues.
(d) Soldiers.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

2. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

3. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.

4. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.

5. Photography also establishes what is allowable as an object of ____________, according to Sontag.

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