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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. What was the profession or the career choice for Whitman during his time in the world?
(a) Poet.
(b) Chemical engineer.
(c) President.
(d) Novelist.

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

3. In his photographs, Steichen gave ___________ material importance according to Sontag.
(a) Peaceful.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Disgusting.
(d) Dark.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What picture of Steichen's was composed of portraiture that showed the universal in the individual?

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

3. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.

4. Whitman's idea was to look beyond the idea of __________ and of ugliness to see more in the world.

5. Arbus admitted to the fact that her own work violated her own ______________ because of its content.

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