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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly.

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) Permission.
(b) Denial.
(c) Encouragement.
(d) Joy.

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

3. To Whitman, the ___________ was important and it was critical to accept this truth.
(a) Darkness.
(b) Trivial.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Forest.

4. In what year was photography invented, according to Sontag's research as outlined in this book?
(a) 1828.
(b) 1839.
(c) 1812.
(d) 1818.

5. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.
(a) Permission.
(b) A need.
(c) A push.
(d) A desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. _____________ often use cameras and practice photography as a method of certifying their travel experience.

2. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.

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

4. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.

5. Arbus took some pictures of 'normal' people, but contrived the pictures to make them look _____________.

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