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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. People with _________ are more likely to have cameras than people who do not have them.
(a) Mothers.
(b) Cars.
(c) Children.
(d) Pets.

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

3. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Mimetic.
(b) Sharp.
(c) Truthful.
(d) Proper.

4. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.
(a) Women.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Children.
(d) Men.

5. The camera can be used to intrude a form of _______ into leisure, within some cultures.
(a) Boredom.
(b) Achievement.
(c) Work.
(d) Measurment.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. The prisoners in the cave see only shadows, and thus believe those shadows are the totality of ____________.

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