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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. As a result of being considered to be documentation, photographs yield a _______ that no other art form can yield.
(a) Veracity.
(b) Truth.
(c) Power.
(d) Humor.

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

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

4. Sontag defines photography as an aid to ______________ in the opening chapter.
(a) Masturbation.
(b) Criminal activity.
(c) The underworld.
(d) Children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Photography has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.

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

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

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

5. Photographers sought to illustrate ____________in discord, or a polity among banal and trivial subjects.

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