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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. Photography makes a compassionate response to presented images ________________.
(a) Modern.
(b) Irrelevant.
(c) Positive.
(d) Obscure.

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

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

4. Photographs do not create ___________ but they reinforce existing morality, according to Sontag.
(a) Morals.
(b) Rules.
(c) Ideas.
(d) Laws.

5. Arbus simply strove to present the subjects of her photographs as ____________ to the viewers.
(a) Scary.
(b) Deadly.
(c) Normal.
(d) Freaks.

Short Answer Questions

1. A photograph can only convey ____________of something, but gives no real information about the subject.

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

3. Arbus' pictures were presented as _____________, even though the content at the time was not considered so.

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

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

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