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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. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.
(a) Freaks.
(b) Ignored.
(c) Dark corners.
(d) Rich.

2. Photography idealizes subjects and makes ________ of people who are in the photographs.
(a) Statues.
(b) Scarecrows.
(c) Objects.
(d) Soldiers.

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

4. What are the shadows in the cave shadows of, according to the book?
(a) Colors.
(b) Dragons.
(c) Faith.
(d) Real objects.

5. Whitman wanted others to realize that the _____________ was a part of the universal.
(a) Word.
(b) Individual.
(c) Image.
(d) Color.

Short Answer 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.

2. Photographs now impose standards of art, culture, and ________ in the world, according to this chapter.

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

4. Whose technique is considered to be impeccable, according to this chapter of the book?

5. Whitman strove to argue that the world should be seen as a ______________ whole, welded together.

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