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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 has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.
(a) Colors.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Real world.
(d) Land.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the story to which the name of this chapter refers?

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

3. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?

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

5. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.

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