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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 has made the world unable to perceive the _________ beyond the photograph, according to Sontag.
(a) Land.
(b) Emotions.
(c) Real world.
(d) Colors.

2. Whitman sought in his work to find _____________ between the differences which exist.
(a) Identity.
(b) Understanding.
(c) Truth.
(d) Community.

3. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Joe.
(b) Phillip.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Walt.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Arbus made everybody look ________________ when she took her photographs.

3. Photography often makes the photographer incapable of _____________ - one can either document or do something else.

4. Camera use is especially pronounced in tourists who come from cultures that stress activity and ______________.

5. Diane Arbus is discussed as having been one to photograph the ____________ of society.

(see the answer key)

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