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

2. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.
(a) All humans.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The world's darkness.
(d) Everything.

3. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) The underworld.
(b) Masturbation.
(c) Criminal activity.
(d) Children.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing the people in the cave who are chained to the wall can see?

2. In large measure, photography has replaced experiential interaction with __________, according to the book.

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

4. The art of taking documentary photographs instead of helping a situation is a tacit ____________ that whatever is going on should keep on happening.

5. In relation to sexuality, the very act of photography infers a perverse ________________.

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